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This report synthesizes findings of evaluations conducted between July 2013 and July 2014, covering 12 operations with a combined planned value of USD 3 billion (totaling over USD 1.7 billion funded), which targeted 14.3 million beneficiaries a year, were of varying types, durations and sizes and implemented in diverse settings.
The evaluations found all operations cohered well with national and sector policy frameworks. WFP is directly influencing policy and strategy formulation, and increasingly engaging in joint programming. WFP delivered broadly relevant food assistance, with most operations appropriate to overall needs; however, insufficient differentiation in the analysis and planning of some operations compromised planning for specific beneficiary needs. Results were inadequately documented, particularly at the outcome level, mainly because of weak monitoring systems. Evaluations revealed that the full extent of WFP's achievements – and under-achievements – is not currently reflected in reporting systems. General food distribution, school feeding and nutrition activities delivered well against coverage targets, with weaker performance in food assistance for assets. Evidence found that WFP served beneficiaries with less food than planned, however. Gender sensitivity was limited.
At the outcome level, WFP made most progress under Strategic Objective (SO) 1 - saving lives. Only limited data were available on SO2 (preventing acute hunger and investing in disaster preparedness and mitigation) and SO5 (capacity-development). Assessment of efficiency and sustainability was shallow; few operations were characterized as generally efficient or potentially sustainable.
External factors affecting results include WFP's complex operating terrain and funding. Internal factors are symptomatic of an organization in transition, progressing in introducing changes, but with business processes needing to adapt. The lessons presented in this synthesis report aim to support WFP as it becomes increasingly fit for purpose.
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The mid-term evaluation covers WFP's country programme (CP) 200163 (2011-2015). It was intended for both accountability and learning and focuses on assessing: i) the appropriateness and coherence of the operation; ii) its results; and iii) the factors explaining the results.
The evaluation assessed the following activities: school feeding, nutritional support to children under five, pregnant and lactating women and HIV/TB patients, cash and food for assets, local purchase and support to local production of fortified foods as well as capacity development. The evaluation, which makes a number of recommendations for the future, was managed and conducted by a consultancy firm, with fieldwork taking place in January/February 2014.
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The project seeks to encourage regular attendance at health facilities of expectant and nursing mothers whose children are at risk of malnutrition. While attendance has increased in the beneficiary centres, it has not become more regular, for a variety of reasons.
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Food aid is an obvious incentive in development schemes carried out in the framework of multi-purpose project Burkina Faso 3326.01 (natural resources and agricultural production, support to food security, training and rural infrastructure construction).


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Elon shot 50.7 percent from the field for the game and 57.6 percent in the second half. Elon also shot 13-of-22 for 59.1 percent from the 3-point line.
"When you score 86 points I think you should win," said Lipscomb head coach Scott Sanderson. "We weren't very good defensively tonight. They got whatever shot they wanted to get."
Brown and Adnan Hodzic scored 26 points each to lead the Bisons. Brown and Hodizc combined to go 22-of-37 from the field. The rest of the Bisons were 10-of-37.
Josh Slater added 17 points and had a career-high 13 rebounds. Hodzic grabbed 12 rebounds.
Lipscomb outrebounded Elon 50-32 including holding a 21-7 advantage on the offensive boards.
Brown scored the first basket of the season for Lipscomb on a layup on the Bisons first possession. He added five more quick baskets to give Lipscomb the early 16-7 lead less than five minutes into the game.
Drew Spradlin and Elon countered with an 11-0 run to go up 18-16 with 12:59 left in the first half. Spradlin connected on three 3-pointers in the stretch and Josh Bonney added a fastbreak layup. The remainder of the half was a back-and-forth affair with nine lead changes and nine times.
"They collapsed us on dribble penetration," said Sanderson. "They just collapsed us defensively and kicked out for 3-pointers."
Elon took a 41-38 advantage into the break. They scored 13 of their first half points off ten Lipscomb turnovers.
"We have to do a better job taking care of the basketball," said Sanderson. "We haven't done that. We had 18 turnovers including ten in the first half."
A jumper by Elon's Josh Bonney started a 7-0 run to put the Bisons down 12 (59-47) with 15:39 left in the game.
Lipscomb cut Elon's lead back to five points with 11:45 left a 3-pointer by Josh Slater and jumpers by Brian Wright and Brown. Two free throw shots by Slater with 10:59 put the Bisons within four points, 63-59.
After nearly two minutes of no offense by either team, Lipscomb defense had a key deflection to create a loss ball. The Bisons were not able to gain control and Elon's Terrance Birdette connected on a 3-pointer to put Elon back up seven with 9:04 left.
Elon used an 8-0 run capped by a put back dunk by Adam Constantine to bring their lead back to 13 (74-61) with 5:52 remaining.
The Bisons were not ready to go away going on a 9-0 run over 1:11 to make it a 76-72 ballgame. Spradlin connected on his 6th 3-pointer of the evening to end the run with 3:20 left.
Slater connected on a 3-pointer with 35 seconds left to put Lipscomb within three points (87-84). The Bisons fouled with 26 seconds on the clock. Bonney drained two free throws but Hodzic scored on the next possession after missed 3-point attempts by Slater and Wright.
Spradlin hit two free throws to seal the game for Elon.
"We had a shortened bench with a couple kids not playing tonight and that shortened our rotation," said Sanderson. "Sometimes when you are fighting that hard to get over a deficit, when you get right there, you are too tired to close them out."
Slater finished the game with 17 points, 13 rebounds, seven assists and three steals in 31 minutes of action
Bison point guards Lee and Zach Brown combined for six assists and six turnovers.
Lipscomb's advantage on the offensive boards led to a 21-12 advantage on second chance points.
Booney led Elon with 24 points off the bench. Spradlin contributed 23 points. Booney and the Elon bench outscored Lipscomb's reserves 35-13.
The Bisons travel down the road to Memorial Gymnasium Monday evening to face off with the Vanderbilt Commodores. Game time is 7 p.m. All the action can be heard live on the Lipscomb Sports Network at www.LipscombSports.com beginning with the Countdown to Tipoff at 6:45.

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Harvey thank you for the Posts. Nice work.The Ubuntublox house 12' X 20' image , has the issue I encountered the most with the box house design... The windows are small not tall enough and I do not see any vents right under the roof. Heat builds up! Hmmm Corruption in "Banana Republics" keep these countries as such, Corruption in "regular" countries still gives minimum livable standards and some positive, visible and measurable impacts in society... No one is perfect, perfection does not exist in a man made world, because of our human nature... Minimums are still at least expected...
The big difference between the way I see things and the way others seem to boils down to I want to help them help themselves, others seem to want to help by doing it for them.
That is Ubuntublox. Not what house can I provide for them but how can I help them use what is available to build their own good house.
An example of that philosophy will be what we are doing for street welders in Haiti. Currently most of them use cheap sunglasses because they can't afford welding hoods.
Ten or so years ago a friend told me about welders in China making welding hood/shields out of a welding lens and cardboard. When I saw the street welders in Haiti I thought of that.
Mitch Lown of Global Groundwork took my idea to his high school class in Wisconsin and they made models and a video of making welding hoods out of cardboard and duct tape and using a shade ten welding lens.
I'm taking 50 more lens with me on this trip for the street welders I encounter.
If I buy the lens in bulk they cost me seventy cents each. I give them the lens. But and this but is huge, they have to build the hood out of cardboard and tape to hold the lens.
The biggest drawback to cheap welding hoods available is the head gear. If I give a welding hood to the street welder and the head gear breaks he will want to do the same thing you would do if you bought something and it broke. You would take it back where you got it, they will too.
If on the other hand they make the hood then when it breaks they can make another to replace it. It also gives them the chance to show off their creativity by making their hood art.
I give them a seventy cent gift. It changes their life because they won't go blind in their thirties and become a liability to family and society. They are now empowered to take their skills to new levels. And most importantly, they aren't expecting another handout because they've learned about a hand up.
It is very labor intensive. But it is investment labor in that people can use what is available to make a great permanent home.
We have always built with trash. Lumber is dead trees. Stone is rock trash. Mud is dirt. We are just using modern trash.
When I see comments about the corruption in Haiti I see ignorance. The corruption in Haiti like the corruption in most developing nations is learned corruption from the developed nations. They learned that you have to get a commission from everything you touch from the people who come to a places like Haiti and believe that the only way things get done is when people get paid, including themselves.
It is Biblical, it is reaping what has been sown.
The end result looks good, my only comment is that it looks very labor intensive
http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/01/Haiti-Communities-E... For the visitors who haven't seen this it is an eye opening expo.
I visited April 2012 and it made me cry to see so much wasted effort and funds. It was an abandoned disaster defining all the things you can do wrong if you have enough money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVE5kO5AiX8&feature=plcp This shows how the ubuntublox house was made.
I'm going to Haiti Sunday and coming back Thanksgiving Day. I will be traveling quite a bit but will be around PAP 19th thru 21st. I will get a Haitian number as soon as I get there and post it on facebook and here if someone wants to talk.
I do wish people like Gary and Garth would be able to visit the Ubuntublox house at Haiti Communitere, it's by the airport in PAP.
They have a straw bale house, the only Earthship in Haiti, a bottle model house built by the same engineers without borders group that built the straw bale house, a super adobe, and two container houses.
The consensus is the Ubuntublox house is the coolest of the bunch, yep cooler than the straw bale and the Earthship.
I believe Gary and Garth need to visit Haiti Communitere and compare apples to apples we might say. The only thing more fair and better than that would be to visit with Haitians.
Did I mention the Ubuntublox house is also most attractive?
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Tarasina Compagni, a former Price resident, will be returning to her hometown for a concert on Saturday, March 9 at the Price Civic Auditorium at 7 p.m.
The concert will be a mixture of many different forms of music including classical, folk songs, well known operas and more.
"It will be include a little bit of everything," said Compagni.
Compagni grew up in Price and later attended Carbon High School. She went to USU Eastern to begin studying music and finished her education at Southern Utah University.
Her love for music began at a young age as many family members played musical instruments and were involved with bands. Being around all kinds of music while growing up, it quickly became something that she wanted to learn more about.
"I was very drawn to it," said Compagni.
After finishing college, Compagni served in the Peace Corps spending some time in the Caribbean.
Compagni has made Grand Junction, Colo., her home and it is where she has lived for 10 years. During her time there, Compagni has worked with local groups including the Grand Junction Symphony, the Western Colorado Corral, and the High Desert Opera.
The concert on March 9 Compagni's first big concert back in her hometown, she said.
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With oil prices near record highs and world supplies increasingly in the hands of countries set on destroying our country, now is not the time to close the door on any domestic energy source. We need more energy, both traditional and renewable, for our economy and for our nation's security. Unfortunately, some in Congress want to completely halt even the consideration of one of the most promising domestic energy resources, oil shale.
The history of oil shale in Northwestern Colorado has been controversial. None of us want a repeat of the bust of 25 years ago. The impacts to our communities were long-lasting. But our region contains an estimated 1.2 to 1.8 trillion barrels of oil. Even by conservative estimates, there are 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from oil shale in the area. That is three times greater than the proven oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Seventy percent of these reserves are under the control of the federal government.
The balanced and responsible development of oil shale should not become a Democrat vs. Republican or energy industry vs. environmentalist issue. Fundamentally this is an issue about using our own energy resources to meet our growing energy needs. In spite of new approaches to extract oil shale under research and development, Congress has already taken steps to remove the resource from our future energy mix.
This summer the House of Representatives narrowly passed proposals to prevent federal agencies from moving ahead on oil shale regulations. The interior spending measure that funds the Bureau of Land Management and other agencies was amended to bring a halt to the oil shale regulatory process initiated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Industry experts agree that the result of this and a similar provision in the House energy bill will stop oil shale development in the Western United States.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05) took significant steps toward strengthening our nation's energy independence by encouraging further responsible development of domestic resources. Among them were oil shale, tar sands, and other strategic unconventional fuels. The bill included a requirement (Section 369) for the Secretary of the Interior to develop a commercial oil shale and tar sands leasing program on federal lands in the States of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming as soon as practicable and publish a final regulation to implement the program later this year.
Now is the time to strengthen our domestic energy security. Putting roadblocks in a regulatory process that already has received local input even when commercial oil shale development is several years off is the wrong approach. Western Colorado contributes significantly to the nation's energy needs already. None of us want oil shale to proceed without careful consideration of its impact to local communities, water and the environment.
Those issues should be included in the debate, not used as excuses to silence local voices that recognize the long-term benefits of oil shale in our region and the country. Congress should allow the oil shale regulatory process to move forward, permit industry to continue its research programs and keep the door open to local input when it comes to this critical energy issue.
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It isn't much of a surprise when recent market statistics declared Android phones to be dominating in the US. One third of all the smartphones sold in the month of spring were all Androids , the most popular amongst them being the Motorola Droid. The HTC Droid Incredible the HTC EVO 4G followed the Motorola Droid. The Apple iPhone4 Unlocked handset and RIM despite having several exclusive features couldn't surpass the Androids. The adoptions of Google's mobile OS by the Androids serve as their staircase to success.
Reports by Electronsta probe that Google will hold on to the American Smartphone for long. Within a few months Androids will feature on the top list. With the Droid X's rapid sales and the upcoming ,much awaited Motorola Droid 2 launching soon Google will be on cloud nine. RIM's share on the other hand continues to degrade. Apple's only consolation is the iPhone but it cannot single-handedly match the Android's performance. The Android has over 200,000 new phone activations per day. Beginning of 2010 figures ranged around 60,000 zooming onto 100,000 in May 2010 and now present day statistics suggest that there are about 1.4 million activations per week.
Android phones are subjected to instantaneous application updates, the most rated application features in the next version. Recent Electronista reports about the Android's success suggest that it might be because of the Verizon. The same might also be the reason for Blackberry's failure.The Buy One, Get One (BOGO) promos provide an extra boost for the sale of the products.It is indeed sad to imagine that HTC, Motorola ,Samsung and LG's Unlocked cell phones will be overshadowed by Google's platform. For now the grass looks greener for the Androids and to add the icing on the cake they are soon going to launch Version 3.0. Androids soon are advancing fast.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude-oil prices climbed closer to $98 a barrel Wednesday, getting an added boost after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its easing stance as expected, while gasoline futures rallied past $3 a gallon on the heels of a surprise drop in inventories.
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Crude oil for March delivery US:CLH3 settled at $97.94 a barrel, up 37 cents, or 0.4%, on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
It was trading around $97.80 before the Fed statement. The statement came 15 minutes ahead of the close of the Nymex trading session.
The policy statement by the Fed's Open Market Committee "was well received by the crude-oil market ... since anything that provides long-term monetary support to demand for energy is viewed as another positive for oil," said Richard Hastings, a macro strategist at Global Hunter Securities.
In the statement following a two-day meeting, the Fed said it would keep buying $85 billion a month in mortgage bonds and Treasurys. See: Fed maintains aggressive easing stance.
"The combination of monetary accommodation and questions about stability in the Middle East are just two of a bunch of supportive steps in the oil story right now," said Hastings.
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Early Wednesday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a much bigger-than-expected rise in crude inventories.
Crude supplies rose 5.9 million barrels for the week ended Jan. 25. Analysts polled by Platts expected a 2.5 million-barrel climb. See: Crude supplies up nearly 6 million barrels, says EIA.
The American Petroleum Institute late Tuesday said crude stocks rose by 4.2 million barrels. See: U.S. oil supplies up more than 4 million barrels.
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The EIA data were "definitely a surprise, especially on the crude front," said Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors, in an email.
"While we have seen crude grind higher over the past several says we feel this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back over the coming days and week," he said.
Motor gasoline supplies, however, fell by 1 million barrels, while distillate stocks declined by 2.3 million barrels, the EIA said. Analysts expected no change to gasoline stocks and a fall of 1 million barrels in distillate supplies.
The February gasoline contract US:RBG3 climbed 6.5 cents, or 2.2%, to $3.04 a gallon. Front-month gasoline futures hadn't settled above $3 since mid-September. February heating oil US:HOG3 ended at $3.12 a gallon, up 1 cent, or 0.3%.


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Friday, March 23, 2012
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – Defeating two quality opponents in one day is nice. Doing so in California is just a bonus.
So it went for Lipscomb softball at Friday's opening day of competition at the Mustang Classic. Lipscomb defeated UNLV 2-1 in the opener, then knocked off host Cal Poly by the same score in the second game.
The win over UNLV was significant for head coach Kristin Ryman; it was the 200th of her career.
"It's been a fun journey for me," Ryman said. "We've had a lot of good players in recent years and they're more responsible for this achievement than I am; they're the ones grinding it out every day."
The opening game of the day was a pitcher's duel, which happens often whenever Lipscomb senior hurler Whitney Kiihnl takes the mound. The Batesville, Miss. native picked up her season's 14th victory, a complete-game three-hitter in which she allowed no earned runs and struck out four.
"Whitney was great against UNLV," Ryman said. "She limited her walks and that was a big point of emphasis for us.
"She didn't have as many strike outs as usual today, but she hit her spots and forced UNLV to hit good pitches. She trusted the defense behind her and they came through."
Neither side managed a hit until UNLV's Tayler Aleman singled to right center with one out in the fourth inning. She would advance to second, but failed to come across to score.
In the home half of the fourth, Lipscomb junior Kelsey Cartwright got the Lady Bison in the hit and run columns on the scoreboard. She led off the fourth with a solo home run to left field, her season's eighth, to give the Lady Bison a 1-0 lead.
It looked like Lipscomb would quickly build on that lead, with seniors Mollie Mitchell and Caroline Mason roping back-to-back singles following Cartwright's home run. They, along with sophomore Bridgette Begle, would be left on base to end the fourth inning.
Lipscomb would strike again in the fifth. Sophomore Rena' Cothron rapped a one-out single up the middle, then advanced to second on a Mitchell single. Mason would bring Cothron around to score with a single through the left side.
UNLV would get one back in the top of the sixth. Paige Emerson reached via error and advanced to second. An Aleman double to right-center brought Emerson around to score.
The seventh inning was a cliffhanger for Lipscomb. Rebel Korin Cuico was hit by a pitch and bunted over to second. Stefany Valentino doubled to left center and Heather Harrison walked, loading the bases with only one away. Fortunately, Kiihnl got Elena Fata to pop out to third and Emerson flew out to center to end the threat and the game.
Cartwright supplied the power with her home run, while Mitchell and Mason collected two hits apiece.
Kiihnl continues to pitch effectively for Lipscomb; she's only allowed more than two earned runs in a start once since March 4.
Game Two – Lipscomb 2, Cal Poly 1
Redshirt freshman Ashley Anderson took the mound for game two. She had been electric on the mound of late, allowing no earned runs since March 4 entering play today.
Cal Poly would get the best early scoring chance in the bottom of the second. A Celina Lafrades walk and Nicole Lund double put runners on second and third with one out, but Anderson got Mariah Cochiolo on a strike out and induced a fly ball out from Whitley Gerhart to get out of the jam.
Lipscomb would threaten in the fourth, when Mason and sophomore Haley Elliott combined for back-to-back one-out singles. The duo were stranded in scoring position to end the threat.
The first run of the game wouldn't be scored until the sixth, when Elliott hit a solo home run to left field, her season's fourth.
The Mustangs answered in the home half of the sixth, bringing Kim Westlund around to score after she hit a lead-off single; she advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and moved to third on an error. Back-to-back walks to Lund Cochiolo brought the tying run in.
Lipscomb scored the winner in the seventh, thanks in no small part to junior Bree Thurman. She singled to start the inning, advanced to second on a Cothron sacrifice and scored after Mitchell singled up the middle to plate the game-winner.
Anderson went five and two-thirds, ultimately getting the no-decision. She scattered four hits and struck out one, allowing no earned runs and one unearned. She has not allowed an earned run in 28 innings pitched.
"Ashley hit a spot late where she was tiring and they were adjusting to her," Ryman said. "We felt like it was a good spot to bring in Whitney, and she got it done."
Kiihnl came on for the relief win, going an inning and a third and striking out two for her 15th win.
Elliott was the offensive catalyst in game two, going 2-for-2 with her solo home run. She was also hit by a pitch.
Ryman had high praise for her defense after the game.
"All day we were outstanding on defense," Ryman said. "The infield played really well and picked up the pitchers today."
The Mustang Classic continues tomorrow, with rematches against Cal Poly (5 p.m. CT) and UNLV (7:30 p.m. CT).


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Teaching cartography using CorelDraw
Posted 26 June 2012 - 02:07 PM
I teach at the University of New Hampshire and am contemplating creating a cartography course that uses CorelDraw to create maps. I am writing to solicit opinions on whether this is worthwhile.
We are a small department and haven't offered a cartography class in years because, supposedly, GIS made that no longer necessary. What students learn about map design they learn in our GIS courses, though in my experience most GIS classes teach little about cartographic principles or map design.
I'm interested in creating a cartography class to help overcome that deficiency, but also because there are many situations where GIS isn't the best or most efficient way to create a map.
I am a historical geographer, but was first drawn to geography by a love of maps and have been creating my own maps for years, first using pen and ink, and since the late 1990s using CorelDraw. I've used Adobe Illustrator to make maps but not since the early 1990s (and don't remember much about it). I taught cartography using CorelDraw in graduate school.
It's my impression that most cartographers who use drawing software use Adobe Illustrator. That makes me worry that I wouldn't be giving students the skills they need in the workplace if I teach them cartography using CorelDraw. I'm not sure I'm willing to start all over to learn Illustrator to teach the class. I like CorelDraw very much and see no other reason to change.
What do you think? Would a cartography course taught using CorelDraw have value for our students? Or, if I'm unwilling to convert to Adobe Illustrator would it be a waste of time?
Thanks for your consideration.
Blake Gumprecht
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:36 AM
I have used CorelDraw software in the mid 90's to create maps. It was at the time the best software to create esthetic maps.
Since, I have moved to the Illustrator (Adobe) -MapPublisher (Avenza) combination. I think that if you look into this option you will find that it will best suite the needs of a Cartographic course within a GIS environment.
I would also consider contacting Avenza (makers of MapPublisher) as they might have special education packages.
Regards and good luck.
Jacques Gélinas
Posted 27 June 2012 - 07:10 AM
I could be argued that graphics software is essential for producing high quality cartographic products but how many of your students will be going down that road? I would think that students are more likely to use GIS software in their everyday work than graphics software; hence I think it is more worthwhile for teach them within the confiens of whatever GIS software they are using. I can't speak for other GIS software, but Esri's ArcGIS has a plethora of tools at its disposal that can vastly improve the cartographic aspects of any map.
Posted 27 June 2012 - 12:43 PM
However, as you point out, Illustrator is used a lot too in "the real world". Perhaps you can include one session on "other graphics packages" that the students could consider, and then mention and/or show Illustrator, Photoshop and CorelDraw.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 01:15 PM
Most persons say GIS maps are ugly, well most are and in fact not due to software limitations but due to lack of underlying principles and to the end need. I would suggest stick to the GIS and consider retouching the final product with other graphics packages. Many workflows start in a GIS environment and end in other sources.
If you use ARCGIS the tools it has can basically create a pretty decent cartographic output without the need to go to other graphic packages, it will still have the GIS map feel but less than other software.
I use QGIS and Inkscape also, but in the US I would almost bet ARCGIS is dominant with ADOBE for cartography with other similar vendors.
Posted 27 June 2012 - 01:16 PM
I think it would benefit your students tremendously if you added even a short section on working with their maps outside of a GIS program. Exporting just one project from Arc to Illustrator and having them refine the presentation there will at least let them know this is an option should they ever end up needed more design control than the GIS provides.
Check the Cartographic Instruction links on my "About" page for an Illustrator Pen Tool exercise to help students learn the basics of Illy and a notes doc on Arc to Illustrator conversion issues.
GIS Reference and Instruction Specialist, Stanford Geospatial Center.
Posted 27 June 2012 - 01:34 PM
Re-reading you original post, I don't think anyone directly answered your specific question RE CorelDraw. I think Illustrator probably makes a better package for this now but if Corel is what you know and have I think it would work fine. Keep in mind that the goal is to pass on universal principles of design. not software specific workflows. Will Corel open an AI or EPS file? If so you should be fine.
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Posted 27 June 2012 - 03:59 PM
Posted 27 June 2012 - 06:33 PM
(1) How much time to I expect my students to take getting up to speed with the graphics application? How much time to I want to take providing tutorial support? I've found that introductory classes often do better if we stick to applying the cartographic principles to where we're compiling our data (i.e. the GIS application). More advanced "studios" provide more breathing room for falling into the intricacies of graphic design functions.
(2) What is the cost (money & staff support) to getting the software on the lab computers? At my department's instructional lab, we already had onsite licensing for the entire Adobe Create Suite, so Illustrator was the natural choice. Our affiliated carto-GIS group also used Illustrator. Other departments in our university used CorelDraw though, based on similar factors.
(3) What is the cost for students to get a copy of the application we're using on their own computer? This isn't mandatory, but many students will express an interest in doing work outside the lab; I've seen it cut both to attendance-avoiders and above-and-beyond star pupils. Even beyond that, the students that take what you teach and run with it will look to use their new knowledge in the future. Can students get access from the school's site license? Does their bookstore or the publisher provide a nice student discount? If we're looking at just using something like ArcGIS, Esri's pretty liberal with their site licenses including students, and their new $100/year personal license is fantastic.
It's been a while since I've used it, but CorelDraw is a perfectly good piece of software for anyone to learn. I'd say go for it, with consideration to the above questions.
Posted 27 June 2012 - 11:50 PM
You mentioned that you began with pen and ink. In high school drafting, our first project was to fill a 24x36 sheet with perfect 1/8" hand written block lettering, india ink on vellum. Was it tedious and arcane and physically painful? Yes. Was everything being done in AutoCAD at the time? Yes. Was it one of the most beneficial and memorable lessons I took away from high school? Absolutely. I think you could successfully teach a cartography course with little more than pen and paper. Sticking with CorelDraw or moving to Illustrator shouldn't make a difference as long as the material focuses on the principles.
Adam Wilbert
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Posted 29 June 2012 - 09:54 AM
I'm a little surprised at how many people discussed cartography only in the context of GIS. I was not planning on teaching cartography as a GIS-based course, though I am hoping to teach students how they can import maps from GIS software into a program like CorelDraw to improve the design.
If I create the course, the focus of the class will be on teaching students map design, using CorelDraw (or Illustrator) as the main tool for creating maps. The focus would be on design principles, but students would also need to become reasonably proficient at CorelDraw (or Illustrator) in order to be able to make maps with the software.
It is my belief that GIS is not the best way to create many types of maps. Do others disagree? I am a historical geographer and create many maps in CorelDraw as part of my research. To make those maps using GIS would be much more difficult, I would think, since the spatial information is not readily available in digital form and since I'm not using the same base map information over and over. To create a location map or simple choropleth map on a historical theme would seem to me to be much easier to create in something like CorelDraw than using GIS software.
If you think I'm wrong, please tell me. I took several GIS courses in graduate school, but have never used GIS since because it never seemed appropriate for the work I do.
Blake Gumprecht
Posted 01 July 2012 - 04:16 PM
We've given in on most of our vector work and are predominantly drawing in Adobe Illustrator now. However, I'll go to my grave swearing that CorelDraw is STILL the superior vector design tool on a PC/Windows platform. We've run head-to-head tests on projects in the past, and our guys can almost always create the illustrations about 10-15% faster in CorelDraw vs. AI (even including the time to convert the file to .ai format at the end).
AI is more powerful! However, you need a third/fourth hand and about a 1,000-page manual to use it efficiently. CorelDraw is *MUCH* more intuitive and, while not as powerful/flexible, has handled the creation of just about any type of illustrated map design project I've thrown at it the past ~18 years.
If you want to train students on "industry standard software," have them use AI. If you want to have them draw more efficiently in vector and thumb your nose at all the Mac-elitist snobs out there, have them use Corel (since CorelDraw is no longer offered/supported for the Mac OS).
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 03:21 AM
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Posted 02 July 2012 - 11:34 PM
Why does one need to know how to use (or use, period) GIS software in order to learn how to properly/ideally create a map?
I understand that is where most of the industry is right now! I'm just throwing that out there as a talking point for the discussion...since maps have existed for hundreds (thousands?) of years. And GIS/software wasn't around for the vast majority of that time.
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Posted 03 July 2012 - 08:49 AM
This is a little bit me simply stirring the pot, and a serious question at the same time:
Why does one need to know how to use (or use, period) GIS software in order to learn how to properly/ideally create a map?
I understand that is where most of the industry is right now! I'm just throwing that out there as a talking point for the discussion...since maps have existed for hundreds (thousands?) of years. And GIS/software wasn't around for the vast majority of that time.
The answer is they don't of course, cartography when viewed as "map design" or anything similar is software and platform independent (and I guess media independent). Maps can be made in any number of ways outside a GIS.
The reality is, cartography as stand alone education and training on map making is almost non existent. The geography department, the natural home of map making training has largely abandoned traditional cartography in favor of GIS mapping. I don't think its hard to make arguments for GISs use in geographic analysis or geographic information science, it has become indispensable in exploring and understanding our world through the visual display and analysis of spatial information. But it focuses not on the sharing or communicating of that information but its storage, manipulation, and "display".
My personal opinion is that cartography was always something of a specialist practice even within geography and there were probably many geographers who were all too glad to have a program that helped them shed the perceived pomp of "design" in science based map making. GIS seemed like it required no special design training, it made maps for you. Cart training gave way to GIS training. Now as the value of cartographic best practices and information design have become more obvious some cartographic instruction has creeped back into geography departments but it goes where the map making now occurs, GIS programs. It's a natural partnership ship in many regards but there precious few GIS practitioners who really know anything abut map design and are capable of passing on not just the techniques for good map making but the reasons why it matters to analytical based mapping at all.
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Spiced Plum Jam with Vanilla Bean
This was my first go-around with plum jam so I turned to an expert to see how it's done. I used Marisa from Food in Jars method and ratio here, just switching up the spices to use what I had on hand, cinnamon and cardamom, then threw in a vanilla bean from my stash. I bought a pound of vanilla beans a few months ago and I love being able to fancy up desserts and preserves with them. I guess I didn't have very high hopes for this simple jam because I was totally blown away by how much I loved it's sweet, tart and spiced notes. Slap some on toast or a scone and it tastes just like a delicious plum cobbler.
Spiced Plum Jam with Vanilla Bean
yield 3-4 half pints
5c chopped Italian plums
1 1/3c sugar
2t cinnamon
seeds from 6 cracked cardamom pods in a cheesecloth sack or tea strainer (you want to be able to remove the seeds before canning the jam)
1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
3-4 sterilized half pint jars and lids
1. In a large bowl combine the plums, sugar, spices, vanilla bean seeds and pod and let sit for at least an hour, the plums will release their juices and the mixture will become very syrupy
2. When you are ready to cook, add the mixture to a large non reactive pot and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Boil the jam for 15-20 min, or until it passes the wrinkle test or if you like numbers you can cook it to 220º. Remove the vanilla bean pod and the cheesecloth or tea strainer with the cardamom seeds. Rinse off the vanilla bean and save it for another use like vanilla sugar or salt.
3. Pour the finished jam into clean sterilized jars and process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.
If you don't have the dollar bills to buy a whole pound of vanilla beans, split it with a few friends and you'll still have a ton of beans at your disposal. Depending on the variety, a pound is usually around 100 beans.
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I'm planning on making some plum jam soon- so glad you paved the way! I will definitely consult Food in Jars. Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
I am liking this, a LOT!!ReplyDelete
How much did you pay for a pound o' vanilla beans, and where did you find them? I'm so discouraged whenever I go into a grocery store and ten bucks only gets me 2 measly vanilla beans. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
you've so inspired me! I just picked up plums from a local farmer and I will be making it this weekend...my FIRST jam! many thanks...ReplyDelete
Hey witchin - I got my beans through beanilla.com. I went for the Mexican beans because they were on sale and I am super happy with them. I think there is also a seller on ebay that is really cheap and well reviewed, but I can't remember the name.ReplyDelete
Ooh, I just did a plum and vanilla bean jam last month too. It's such a great combination.ReplyDelete
Mm, delicious. We still have plenty of plums here in San Diego, this would be a divine summer finale. I have serious le cruset envy right now, too. I've been looking at a white pot like that for a while now. :)ReplyDelete
Wow, perfect for ringing in the fall! I wonder how a dollop of this would be on a bit of apple tea cake...ReplyDelete
Hi, I've been following your blog for awhile but have never posted a comment. I love your photos and I'm wondering what kind of camera (and film?) you use for your blog. Perhaps you've already written about this before, if so my apologies.ReplyDelete
I love love love all of these pictures! And the recipe sound divine!ReplyDelete
Kelsey - My dutch oven was a hand me down from a friend who couldn't take it with her then we left college. I use it almost every day and it definitely shows, but I love it and I think of her every time I use it. I love cookware with a storyReplyDelete
Hi Meghan, thanks for visiting and asking! I use a pentax k1000 with a 50mm lens and kodak portra film, then I have my negatives scanned at the lab. It's a pretty low tech set up, but I love it so.
Thanks Steph!
Thanks Yossy! I still take film photos, yet I haven't tried it with my food photos. That's something though that I want to experiment with.ReplyDelete
Those plums are stunning, I have serious fruit envy. Not to mention vanilla bean envy... I've been meaning to bulk buy online but can never seem to justify it. I've got to get on that.ReplyDelete


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Creationists sneer at the Big Bang theory. Astrophysicists exclude God from their equation. But it's all the same, meeting the same paradox. They differ only in names. None answers the question.
So, what's the question? Simply: how did it all start?
In case of a divine creation out of nothingness, creatio ex nihilo, that's not a real nothingness to begin with, since God is there. If God's not nothing, there's something – even though that something is very different from the something of our universe.
In case of the Big Bang, already the Greeks told us that something cannot come out of nothing. At least there had to be a something making something possible to appear out of nowhere.
The astrophysicists are starting to seriously question the Big Bang idea, regarding the notion that it would have happened out of nothing. A bunch of theories are being presented and tested, as much as can be done in this field.
Also the idea of an ever-present universe, although dynamic, is revived by some scientists.
No Time
|Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 CE.
Which is exactly what the Big Bang theory claims.
Even in a theory of an eternal universe, time is at the core – or it could not be eternal.
I wonder if time exists at all as a separate entity. There is movement, there is change. If there is neither movement nor change, where is time?
Maybe we should stop regarding time as a dimension, but just the movement within the dimensions of space. Then we would say – sort of like the Buddhist – that everything changes, always. Seeing the start here or there is of little relevance. It's just a lot of movement between things in relations to one another. Now it's here, now it's there.
The Effect Is the Cause
|Aristotle, 384-322 BC.
Even if we imagine a universe where cause is preceded by effect – as if the latter is longing for the former – it's still on a timeline, although reversed. It's an interesting line of thought, though. Kind of religious. The divine plan, the goal deciding how the voyage will be.
Actually, it's often very difficult to decide where in time to place the cause – before or after the effect. That's because it's not always clear which is which. The chicken or the egg.
Maybe that's the true difference between a divine reality and a physical one: In the former, the effect is the cause, because it's what God intended, so the result was actually what caused the cause, so to speak.
In a strictly physical universe, though, there has to be a cause initiating the process to lead to the effect, and that effect is nothing but a result of the cause, since there is no intention towards it. Things happen because that's how things work.
But in a universe where there is no will or intention between cause and effect, there is no way of assuring their order of power. Something moved from here to there, because of this or that. Well, since it is now there, the cause was bound to get it there and could not get it elsewhere. So, what is cause and what is effect?
The human being has struggled long with the concept of free will: I want to go there, so I can. Otherwise I would remain here forever. The Greeks thought a lot about it, and so did people in many other cultures and eras. They wondered, how are we at all able to move?
Intention makes it happen. Without intention, no movement.
So, everyone thought that this must somehow be true for everything in the universe. Some kind of intention, or there would be no movement, no change, and the whole universe would be like dead. In every meaningful way of looking at it, the universe would cease to exist if nothing happened to it or inside of it.
Like an Idea
I've always found the Big Bang theory amusing, because it's so close to the concept of God's creation. In a vast nothingness (actually, in the Bible this nothing is a primordial sea), God says: "Let there be light!" Suddenly, bang! Everything appears.
|God creates light. Bible illustration by Gustave Doré.
Who Can Know?
But, as mentioned above, God is no final cosmogony. He just leads to new questions: What is God? Where did He come from? Et cetera.
Whether there's some kind of God or not, we shouldn't use Him to stop ourselves from continued inquiry.
Modern science is so complex, most of us feel completely incapable of following its thoughts. But the Greeks have shown us that still today, even the most advanced scientists wrestle with the same questions the Greeks asked themselves. Can there have been a beginning? Can something come out of nothing?
So, I suspect that the solution to the problem of the origin of the universe is either unfathomable or accessible to us all.
That's precisely why I allow myself cosmological speculations like this one, although minutely introduced to astronomy. That, and the kick it gives my imagination.
I also suspect that the key to the origin of the universe is not to be found in the distant past or the distant future, but in the here and now.
Something or Nothing
We're still just starting to understand what the universe is, how it works, and of what it consists. So, I doubt that we know enough to ask the right question.
Let's go back to nothing and something. The Greeks said (well, some of them) that something cannot come out of nothing. Nor can something turn into nothing, but that's not questioned by astrophysics.
So, if we imagine a something that seems to be enclosed in nothing, it must be all there is. Such a universe, then, must in some way always have been and always will be. No starting or ending dates. The dynamics of it, the movement and changes, can be whatever – but it has to be there always.
Well, if the movement and changes stop completely, utterly completely, it sort of ceases to exist – except for the fact that it has a history, it has moved towards non-movement. Then the question is: can it move again? If so, that's not the complete stop. Can something stop so completely that it can never move again?
That would be the very end of what astrophysicists call the Big Freeze. Even though it's so extremely far off, I would say it's the prospect we prefer the least. It's so sad.
Now, if we imagine instead that our universe is something contained in another something creating it somehow – then the answer to the question of the origin of the universe is none other than the origin of that bigger something in which our universe was created. So, we're back to square one.
Prime Mover Tao
If we look again at the idea of movement and change, making time just a way of mapping these things, then there's no point in searching a beginning or an end, but the process by which things move and change. That's mostly in line with Einstein and his quest for a unified field theory – or Aristotle's Prime Mover.
|Lao Tzu.
To Lao Tzu, though, the nature of that Tao primordial law was such that a universe was bound to come. The birth of the world was part of the nature of Tao. So will the future death of the universe be, although just vaguely implied by Lao Tzu.
Things emerge out of Tao and return to it, eventually. Therefore, so will a universe born out of it. That compares well to the astronomical theory of the Big Crunch – or the Big Bounce, where an oscillatory universe goes on forever.
Ever-Present Law
The Big Bang theory mentions the moment of the Bang, before which no natural law can be specified. It's called the Planck time, 10
There has to be a Tao for that, if it can happen at all. A Prime Mover making the universe appear in whatever shape. The truly unifying field theory should encompass that force.
That's why I think we can focus on the present. If there is one law, one force, by which our universe was possible to emerge – then that law is ever-present. Finding it, we have the key to everything.
I think it's possible to find, if we just get the idea. And I think that it has much of the characteristics of an idea.
We Find What We Seek
Frankly, I have my doubts about reality. It might be more like the computer age expression "what you see is what you get" than we are comfortable with. Or the much older expression: "Seek and ye shall find." To find anything we must be looking for it, and we must be able to see it as it is.
We can't say anything for certain about the world we live in, until we are sure about how to extract objective reality from our impression of it.
For example, the Big Bang theory would have been impossible for us to accept without the previous notion that the world had a starting date. So, we searched for a start and we thought we found it.
Maybe we did and maybe we didn't find the worlds starting point, but the real lesson is that we find what we seek and rarely something else. Discoveries tend to come when we are prepared to accept them, or even wish for them.
What reality is really like is certainly something very different from what our senses perceive. Instruments of our science have shown that to be true, even with something as basic as what we see with our eyes, which is just one part of the spectrum. Other parts give very different views. So, what does the world look like when everything can be seen?
Imagination Is Real
There are patterns. The more we see and learn about the universe, the more intricate the patterns of its working are. But still, when we are able to take it all in, the patterns will stand out and show a design and point to a solution.
My bet is on that solution being just as metaphysical as it is physical. To understand the universe we must accept all the ways by which we perceive it. One of the major ingredients, then, is our imagination, our fantasy.
I think that fantasy is no less real than the rest. It just works in different ways, expresses the fundamental law of nature differently. But it's part of what the universe is made: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."
I don't mean it in a symbolic way, like the poet searching a metaphor to express his sentiment. I mean it. In the world of atoms, gravitation, electricity, et al. Imagination is a major force in the universe, maybe the only one. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to encompass the universe. And we can't perceive any other universe than the one we imagine.


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I'm looking to really grasp OO once and for all.
Any recommendations on a good Objected-Oriented book?
I program in .Net, so if it's .Net oriented all the better.
I'm looking to really grasp OO once and for all.
Any recommendations on a good Objected-Oriented book?
I program in .Net, so if it's .Net oriented all the better.
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I don't think a single book will get you up to speed. Do do do, read other's people's code and discuss.
But to get you started I would recommend the following books in that order. In my mind the next step after OO thinking is patterns, if you know the basic you see them applied in the patterns and you can learn the trade off's, making you better in OO.
After that you are ready for the basic gang of four design patterns
Object Thinking from Microsoft Press.
This book is really well written and goes deep into real object orientation - how to break out of procedural thinking and structure your code as interacting objects.
Object Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Edition, by Bertrand Meyer.
Take a look at the table of contents of the book in Wikipedia.
Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations is a complete, superbly detailed, if somewhat advanced, definition on what it takes to build an object-oriented system.
Object Oriented Thought Process by Matt Weisfeld.
It explains the OOP concepts very well in a simple to understand language (good for novice, specially a non-native English speaker, like me).
I highly recommend Head First Design Patterns.
It's a very illustrative and simple to digest explanation of the most common design patterns. It's teaching style is easier to consume than other highly text/academic way of teaching the patterns.
If you already have a good grasp of OOP principles from C++, then really all you need is a Java reference manual that has examples. I would recommend the Core Java books by Horstmann and Cornell (at least Vol. 1, and maybe Vol. 2 as well if you are interested in the topics in it).
If you learned C++ only as an afterthought to learning C, then you maybe are missing the OOP concepts and big picture. You'll need to have a pretty good understanding of OOP to really grok Java programming, since Java was designed as a OOP language only, while C++ can be used for a structured programming style in addition to its OOP features. (As a university computer programming instructor, I have run into many people who say they know C++ very well, but their programs were always written in a structured programming style, starting topdown with main() and breaking down into subfunctions, and maybe grouping some of the subfunctions as static functions in a "class", but they couldn't really do OOP - starting with the classes needed first and writing main() last, writing proper constructors/destructors/copy constructors, information hiding, recognizing when inheritance and virtualization would help them reuse code and/or make their program more flexible, etc.) If that's the case, then I would recommend starting with a book more like an "introduction to programming using Java" book that emphasizes objects. Head First Java, part of the O'Reilly series, is a good short fun book. Cay Horstmann has a series of Java textbooks that are also pretty good, introducing creating classes and objects in a very early chapter and using them throughout.
If you want the true master-level view of Java, then I would recommend Bruce Eckel's Thinking In Java. He really delves into the what and the why of why Java is the way Java is. Sources: Amazon
Martin fowler, a well respected programmer, says this about this book: "People often ask me which is the best book to introduce them to the world of OO design. Ever since I came across it, Applying UML and Patterns has been my unreserved choice."
I have the book, but haven't read it yet.
If you really feel like you want to start at the beginning, you may want to read this:
Object Oriented Thought Process (link)
I've read it, and it's a great introduction to OO concepts.
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I found Timothy Budd's "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming" to be a good introduction to OO. In particular, Budd compares several different OO languages, including C++, Delphi, CLOS, Smalltalk, Objective-C, Java.
If you want a book that (IMHO) uses on the ideas presented in Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and Collaborations and applies them to the real world object-orientated development in a modern, cutting edge manner then I highly recommend Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests. It's Java but I found it easy to follow (I'm .net too).
I find Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET, may be help to you. And, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is based on Java, but helps to get the OOP degign concept.
Object Thinking by David West has already been mentioned. In addition, I would suggest the Wyrfs-Brock books. (None of these are .NET specific, though)


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