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Sept. 27Homecoming North Rockdale Baptist Church homecoming celebration and dinner, 3130 Ga. Highway 138, 11 a.m. Info: 770-596-8423, Pastor Jim Sparacino. Appreciation program Bethel Grove Baptist Church hosts an appreciation program for the Revs. Randolph Norman and Gerald Terrell, 3 p.m. 10728 Flat Shoals Road. Info: 770-786-8388. Musical Day Macedonia Baptist Church hosts Musical Day 2009, 1052 Barton St., Conyers, 4 p.m. Preview of Dave Ramsey Mt. Tabor Methodist Church hosts a free preview of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University classes, in the Fellowship Hall of the church, 33 Mt. Zion Road, Oxford, 1:30 p.m. Info: 770-714-4919. Sept. 28 50th Class Reunion Deadline to RSVP for the Rockdale County High School 50th class reunion to be held on Oct. 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Longhorn's Steakhouse in Conyers. Info: 770-289-9670, Linda Smith or 678-342-9045, Forrest Sellars. Revival Services North Rockdale Baptist Church revival services, Sept. 28 to Sept. 30, 7 p.m. nightly, nursery provided, 3130 Ga. Highway 138, Conyers. Info: 770-596-8423, Pastor Jim Sparacino. Prostate Cancer Rockdale Medical Center hosts a lecture titled 'Prostate Cancer: An update on Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment,' presented by Dr. Bert Chen, 1412 Milstead Ave. Conyers, Classroom #2, free PSA testing from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m., lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. Info: 770-918-3414 to RSVP. Sept. 29 Mentoring Training Classes The Newton Mentoring Program needs volunteers to mentor students at the Newton County public schools. A training class will be held at Turner Lake Complex, 6185 Turner Lake Road, Covington, 6 p.m. Info: 678-381-7948, Margaret Washington or e-mail: email@example.com. Rockdale Medical Center Rockdale Medical Center hosts a community blood drive, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., donors are entered into a drawing for a $1,000 gas card, RMC, Classroom #2, and an Emergency Preparedness Forum - making a family emergency plan, getting an emergency supply kit and more, 1412 Milstead Ave., 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Libertarian Party The Libertarian Party of Rockdale County monthly meeting, Ruby Tuesday, Restaurant, Banquet Room, 1714 Ga. Highway 138, Conyers, 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker: Dr. Chris Greene, DC. Info: 770-760-1776. Oct. 1 Board of Assessors Board of Assessor meeting, BOA Conference room, 981 Milstead Ave., Conyers, 10 a.m. Local Author Speaking The Newton County Library hosts Phyllis Strong, local author of the book 'Touch Every Heart,' 7116 Floyd St., Meeting room, Covington, 6:30 p.m. Info: 770-787-3231. Oct. 2 Homeschool Days Deadline to register for Homeschool Days at Rock Eagle Oct. 19 to 20, homeschoolers can study native reptiles and amphibians and much more, includes lodging, four meals and five classes, for homeschoolers and their families only, space is limited. Info: www.rockeagle4h.org/ee/homeschooldays. Oct. 3 Camp Meeting Meridian Herald presents its 12th annual camp meeting service - Meridian Chorale and the Sonny Houston Appalachian Singers performing and Emory Brooks Holifield speaking, Smyrna Camp Ground, 2920 Highway 212, Conyers, free, 4 p.m. Info: visit www.meridianherald.org or 404-525-4722, Steven Darsey. 50th Class Reunion Rockdale County High School 50th class reunion, Longhorn's Steakhouse in Conyers, 6 to 9 p.m. Info: 770-289-9670, Linda Smith or 678-342-9045, Forrest Sellars. Pumpkin Patch Covington First United Methodist Church hosts The Great Pumpkin Patch, Oct. 3 to Oct. 30, 1113 Conyers St., Covington. Info: 770-786-7305 or e-mail: communications@fumccovington. org. Fall Festival Living Way Worship Center hosts fall festival - games, crafts, food and more, cost: $7 per child for ages 3 and up, festival held at the Olde Town Pavilion, Conyers, 1 to 4 p.m., all proceeds benefit the Spoke 'N For Motorcycle Ministry Outreach of LWWC. Info: 770-380-9787, Samantha Sheppard. Friendship Festival The Social Circle Better Hometown Association hosts 15th annual Fall Friendship Festival - parade, all day craft vendors, food vendors, children's fun area, music and more, parade begins at 10 a.m. at the City's Community room, Social Circle. Info: 770-464-1866 or visit www.socialcirclega.com. 38th Annual Barbecue Union United Methodist Church hosts 38th annual barbecue, $7 for adult plates, $4 per kid plates, brunswick stew, chopped barbecue and whole barbecue ham all for sale as well, proceeds benefit church missions and projects, UUMC, 4600 Highway 138, Stockbridge, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Info: 770-483-4338. Olde Jail Museum The Rockdale County Historical Society hosts tours of the Olde Jail Museum, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Info: 770-602-2606. Plant Sale and Festival The Master Gardeners of Rockdale County hosts Plant Sale and Festival - plant bargains, cooking demo, children's activities, food, and much more, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 1400 Parker Road, Conyers. Farmers Field Day The Upper Ocmulgee River RC & D Council Inc. hosts an educational field day - providing training for equine/cattle operators, farmers and ranchers, planting winter grains, soil quality, funding through Farm Bill Programs and more, Georgia International Horse Park, 1996 Centennial Olympic Parkway, Conyers, 10 a.m. to noon. Info: 770-339-6071. Motorcycle Rally Abiding Grace Lutheran Church hosts 2nd annual Grace Ride, meet at Covington Wal-Mart at 9 a.m., off of Highway 142 and Hazlebrand Road, $25 per bike, $5 per passenger. Info: 770-385-7691. Oct. 6 NARFE NARFE Chapter 1829 meeting, special guest speaking on longevity and nutrition, Thomas' Buffet, off of Highway 81, Covington, cost $8 per person plus tip, 11 a.m. Info: 770-786-7624. Oct. 7 Class of 1961 The Newton County High School Class of 1961 meeting, Lou's Soda Shop, behind the Blue Willow Inn, Social Circle, 11:30 a.m. Info: 770-267-4259. Oct. 10 Baby Shower Benefit Conyers Church of God hosts Love Loud Baby Shower benefiting the Refuge Pregnancy Center, bring wrapped/bagged gifts for baby boys or girls, Refuge Pregnancy Center, 1307 Milstead Ave., Conyers, 2 to 4 p.m. Info: 770-760-1609. Oct. 11 Homecoming Highland Park Baptist Church presents 46th Homecoming Celebration - Won By Faith singing gospel, 6 p.m. at 1381 Irwin Bridge Road. Info: 770-483-3757. Oct. 14 NSDAR The Sergeant Newton Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution meeting, Ramsey residence, 5112 Dearing St., Covington, 3 p.m. Oct. 15 Board of Assessors Board of Assessor meeting, BOA Conference room, 981 Milstead Ave., Conyers, 10 a.m. Board of Education The Rockdale County Board of Education monthly work session, Central Office Board Room, 954 N. Main St., Conyers, 7 p.m. Vietnam Veterans Allicance Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance, Conyers chapter, monthly meeting, Theodore Van Kirk, navigator of the Enola Gay speaking, Conyers VFW Post 5290 at 1432 VFW, free, 6:30 p.m. Info: 404-805-1007. Oct. 16 Omega Trail Summit Baptist Church presents 5th annual Omega Trail, a 45-minute walking tour of scenes of what life would be like if Christ returned today, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Oct. 16-18. Tickets: $5. 3080 Ga. Highway 81, Loganville. Info: 678-372-3406. Church Anniversary Macedonia Baptist Church celebrates 136th anniversary, Pastor Larry D. Spurlock speaking at 11 a.m. and Pastor Jerry D. Black speaking at 4 p.m., 1052 Barton St., Conyers. Class of 1960 The Class of 1960 meeting, Thomas' Country Buffet, 4122 Emory St., Covington, 11:30 a.m. Info: 770-786-8272, Wayne Hunt or visit www.newtoncountyhighschool1960.com. Oct. 17 School Fall Carnival The J.H. House Elementary School hosts Fall Carnival/Craft Fair - games, booths, hayride, inflatable maze, country store, food and more, rain or shine, tickets are $.50 each, 2930 Loganville Highway, Conyers, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 22 Board of Education The Rockdale County Board of Education regular monthly meeting, Central Office Board Room, 954 N. Main St., Conyers, 7 p.m. Oct. 23 Omega Trail Summit Baptist Church presents 5th annual Omega Trail, a 45-minute walking tour of scenes of what life would be like if Christ returned today, 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Oct. 23-25. Tickets: $5. 3080 Ga. Highway 81, Loganville. Info: 678-372-3406. Oct. 24 Friends of Porterdale The Friends of Porterdale hosts the 7th annual Porterdale Reunion, downtown Porterdale, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Info: 770-922-3893 or visit www.friendsofporterdaleinc.org. Oct. 31 Hallelujah Fest New Covenant Christian Ministries hosts Hallelujah Fest 2009 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Car trunk Trick or Treat, games, music and children's costume contest planned, 1760 Phillips Road, Lithonia. Info: 770-484-9300. The Community Calendar is a forum for announcing meetings and events of nonprofit organizations of Rockdale and Newton counties. To submit information, call 770-483-7108, ext. 401, fax the information c/o Julie Wells at 770-483-5797 or e-mail event information to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include an event description, sponsoring organization, date, time, place, phone number and contact person. Announcements are printed as space is available in date order.
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Michael Karcher, PE, HFDP Receives the 2012 VSHE Presidents Award
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA June 15, 2012– Clark Nexsen, an established leader in providing architecture, engineering, interior design, planning, and landscape architecture services announces that that the Virginia Society of Healthcare Engineers (VSHE) has awarded Michael Karcher, PE, HFDP, Senior Mechanical Engineer in the Norfolk office the 2012 Presidents Award for Outstanding Service in supporting VSHE. Michael Leslie, Director of Energy Management for L.E. Ballance Electrical Services was also a recipient of this award.
VSHE is a local chapter affiliated with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering that is dedicated to improving and enhancing our local healthcare facilities infrastructure, operations and maintenance through planning, education, cooperation, advocacy and design innovation. The 2012 award winners were honored at a ceremony during the 2012 VSHE Annual conference last month in Williamsburg, VA.
Michael Karcher, PE, HFDP has served as the program co-chair for the Hampton Roads District of VSHE since 2010. He has been instrumental in this position and has demonstrated his dedication to VSHE through his effective use of resources that brought meaningful training to the team. Michael continuously utilized his organizational skills when coordinating meeting sites, audio/visual equipment support and meals each month. This consistent effort, has by far, placed Michael as the major contributing member of the Hampton Roads Leadership in membership retention and growth.
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Beach Hotel na balam, Isla Mujeres
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MOCON Reaches New Heights
MOCON Inc. has recently installed oxygen and water vapor permeation testing units in a Lhasa, Tibet, pharmaceutical testing laboratory. Representing MOCON's highest altitude installation, the lab is located at 11,450 feet (3490 meters) above sea-level. The units will be used to measure package permeation for traditional Tibetan herbal remedies and conventional pharmaceuticals, MOCON reports in a press release.
The Lhasa laboratory will be using a MOCON OX-TRAN 2/21 ML and a PERMATRAN-W Model 3/33 MG Plus unit. Both units have been engineered to test permeation of either flat materials or finished packages of devices such as vials, pouches, bottles, blister cavities and syringes. However, in Lhasa, the units primarily will be used for high barrier testing of packaging structures with either aluminum foil or metalized layers.
The OX-TRAN 2/21 system also features barometric pressure compensation, which "normalizes" the test results to sea level to ensure uniform test results worldwide, regardless of altitude or weather conditions, MOCON reports. The OX-TRAN 2/21 also uses a patented coulometric sensor (COULOX) to detect oxygen transmission. It provides parts-per-billion sensitivity even in the presence of water vapor.
The newly-launched PERMATRAN-W Model MG 3/33 Plus, water-vapor transmission rate unit, offers automatic relative humidity (RH) capability via cutting-edge engineering. The "easy-to-use" new software interface enables the instrument to quickly and simply achieve accurate and precise relative humidity conditions. Precise results are critical to understanding how barriers will perform in real-world conditions.
In 2007, MOCON established an office, laboratory, and service center in Shanghai to help provide leading-edge permeation technology for growing economies in the Asia-Pacific region. Additionally, MOCON is supported in the region by its agent, Danbell Equipment Company Lte., Beijing
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Although I never need to make organisation and organising any more fun for me, I know that for some of you organising might not be a strong point or something to be enjoyed. My paperwork was arranged neatly inside old ugly ringbinder folders for years, hidden away fortunately in a trunk in our old living room. When we moved here the trunk didn't come with us and they ended up on our open bookshelves in the dining room, battered and messy looking, ugly colours and looking all mismatched. I decided to stick to a £30 budget to buy new attractive folders, but then thought, hang on a minute, I'm gonna try and do a DIY job and spend far less, recycling the fully functional folders in the meantime.
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In China, there are more male online shoppers than female online shoppers. However, women are the ones really shaping the thriving Chinese ecommerce market that saw a massive US$74 billion spent in the first three months of this year. China's women spend more and shop online more frequently. More importantly, many female eshoppers view ecommerce as part of their lifestyle. They enjoy the fun of exploring and shopping online.
Chinese female consumers are spending more online than Chinese male consumers. In 2013, over 60 percent of Chinese online consumers spent more than RMB 3,000 (US$483) on the internet, with the majority of them being female. You can see in the chart below that women accounted for 60 percent of the online shoppers who spent more than RMB 100,000 (US$16,1000) last year.
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Ministry DescriptionTeslin is a remote village along the Alaska Highway in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The population of the town is around 400 people of which more than half are Tlingit First Nation. Our ministry in Teslin is to help people find true meaning and purpose in life through a relationship with Jesus Christ. It is our goal that through effective evangelism and discipleship, we will see fellowshipping bodies of believers formed and established for the glory of God. Currently our ministry has involved mens Bible study, Sunday services, after school kids clubs, VBS, Bible camp, and mentoring. As a family, we enjoy being a part of our community and people's lives, to help share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Head down while grooming
I don't know if this is a result of training, security-growth or just an "it's-that-kind-of-day" thing:
Yesterday while grooming my 6 yr old stdbd she would put her head right down to the floor and nuzzle the cement or the dirt or whatever was there. If I stopped, raised her head and then started again, she'd put her head back down. Completely stress-free as far as I could see. Maybe she's finally learning how to chill and this is her comfort position for grooming?
BTW, I have spent quite a bit of time over the last few months encouraging her to keep her head down, but not that far down!
Anyone else ever see this?
The mare that I ride for lessons does this some days. I'm not sure. For her, this is when she's relaxed. Most of the time she's pretty uptight and crabby (she's an old lady. haha), but when she does relax, she puts her head wayy down.
Yeah, Some of the horses I ride do this. I think they're acting like another horse is grooming them, like what they would do in the pasture, and it's just a reflex.
Thanks. This is definitely a HUGE step for her then. Yipee!
I agree
I would have to say that I agree with you guys are saying, I think that the horse is just being relaxed and minding its own buisness... So it is definately a good sign.
Yes, and it's a good sign they see you as their friend who acts like a horse. :)
My horses both put their heads down when I groom them. I think it just relaxes them and they enjoy it.
Well, I think it's great she's so relaxed. I just had never seen a horse put their head ALL the way down like that for grooming. Let's see if she maintains that behavior!
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A-K Vintage and Thrift store has opened at 122 E. Fourth Ave., Tarentum, former site of Diamond Antiques.
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Friedman received a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and bachelor's degree in biological sciences and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Allegheny General Hospital.
Griffith received his doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, W.Va., and a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Allegheny College. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Memorial Hospital in York and worked at York Memorial Hospital before moving to Brackenridge. He will be assistant medical director.
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Goodwill updates web presence
Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania recently offered an updated look for its website, www.goodwillswpa.org, and introduced a new mobile website.
Over the past year, Goodwill has significantly increased its use of electronic communications by creating a monthly electronic newsletter, The Goodwill Gamut, and by stepping up its use of social media tools such as Facebook, (www.facebook.com/goodwillswpa), Twitter (@gwswpa), YouTube, Google+, Pinterest and foursquare. For example, Goodwill Facebook followers are the first to receive information about retail promotions, new store openings, client success stories and other topics.
Major features of the website include a redesigned header on every page for easier navigation of subpages; a large, rotating image area on the home page for stronger promotion of special events and news; more comprehensive accessibility to ensure compliance with ADA standards; a prominent "sticky" footer on every page to feature links to client success stories and social media; and an easy-to-navigate event calendar.
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Educational Search and DiscoverEd
Last week in the vuDAT building at Michigan State University, a group of developers interested in educational search and discovery got together to contribute code (in what's commonly called a code sprint) to Creative Commons' DiscoverEd project. Readers interested in the technical details about our work last week can find daily posts on CC Labs — Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3.
DiscoverEd is a semantic enhanced search prototype. What does that mean practically? Let's say you're a ninth grade biology teacher interested in finding education resources about cell organelles to hand out to students. How would you go about that?
If you're web savvy, you might open up a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or Bing and search for "cell organelles". You'd find a lot of resources (Google alone finds over 11 million pages!), but which do you choose to investigate further? It's time consuming and difficult to sift through search results for resources that have certain properties you might be interested in, like being appropriate for 9th graders, being under a CC license that allows you to modify the resource and share changes, or being written in English or Spanish, for example. As you throw up your hands in dismay, you might think "Can't someone do this for me?!"
DiscoverEd is an educational search prototype that does exactly that, by searching metadata about educational resources. It provides a way to sift through search results based on specific qualities like what license it's under, the education level, or subject.
Compare search results for "cell organelles" in Google, Yahoo, Bing, and now in DiscoverEd. You can see that finding CC licensed educational resources is friendlier because of the available metadata accompanying each result.
While most search engines rely solely on algorithmic analyses of resources, DiscoverEd can incorporate data provided by the resource publisher or curator. As long as curators and publishers follow some basic standards, metadata can be consumed and displayed by DiscoverEd. These formats (e.g. RDFa) allow otherwise unrelated educational projects, curators, and repositories to express facts about their resources in the same format so that tools (like DiscoverEd) can use that data for useful purposes (like search and discovery).
Creative Commons believes an open web following open standards leads to better outcomes for everyone. Our vision for the web is that everyone following interoperable standards, whether they be legal standards like the CC licenses or technical standards like CC REL and RDFa, will result in a platform that enables social and technical innovation in the same way that HTTP and HTML enabled change. DiscoverEd is a project that allows us to explore ways to improve search for OER, and simultaneously demonstrate the utility of structured data.
Continued development of DiscoverEd is supported by the AgShare project, funded by a grant from The Gates Foundation. Creative Commons thanks MSU, vuDAT, MSU Global, and the participants in the DiscoverEd sprint last week for their support.1 Comment »
Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd
In July, CC Learn officially launched DiscoverEd, a search prototype that provides scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web. We blogged about it again during Back to School week, emphasizing the future of search and discovery of educational resources and how we hoped DiscoverEd would catalyze efforts in that direction. Since then, we have been working with various organizations and projects who want to include their resources into DiscoverEd, and through all the back and forth about feeds and mark-up–essentially what's required to get your stuff included for greater discovery–we realized we could streamline the process by putting some necessary information into a brief document.
Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd is second in the CC Learn Step by Step Guides series, which is part of our larger Productions schema. It is a basic guide for those interested in preparing their resources for inclusion into search engines like DiscoverEd that utilize structured data. It is targeted at people or institutions interested in making their digitally published educational resources more discoverable. Though the document contains technical language and sample XHTML and RDFa, it's really not all too complicated. Basically, you just need one of the right feeds to start, which you can then copy and paste the link of into ODEPO (the Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations). ODEPO is hosted on OpenED, the community site for open education. It's a wiki, so anyone can create an account and add their project or organization to the database.
But the guide explains all that, (as does the DiscoverEd FAQ) and the alternatives–which include contacting us directly. DiscoverEd already pulls from a number of institutions and repositories, and as it expands we hope to improve its search capabilities. Any feedback is welcome.Comments Off on Preparing Your Educational Resources for DiscoverEd
The Guardian Talks With CC CEO Joi Ito
The Guardian just posted a great interview with CC CEO Joi Ito that, while focusing broadly on Joi's work as an entrepreneur, spends substantial time discussing his role at CC.
The piece touches on a number of topics including how CC interacts with businesses, our commitment to RDFa, and how our licenses can be used:
The advantage of the range of Creative Commons licences is that it can be tweaked as the creator likes. "Typically a professional musician will choose a licence that prohibits commercial reuse to protect their income, which usually comes from copyright. But for instance a photographer, and especially an amateur photographer, may want to be well-known, so they focus on attribution. Documentary producers often say 'no derivatives' because they don't want the story to change, but will allow commercial use so that movie theatres can show their work."
Be sure to read the interview at the Guardian's website or check out the full transcript here. You can also listen to the interview as part of the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast.1 Comment »
HOWTO Make Your CC-licensed Images Visible to Robots
After last week's exciting announcement that Google Image search is now capable of filtering results by usage rights, we realized there is a lot of interest in how creators can signal their work as being CC-licensed to both humans and robots.
Fortunately, CC has a solution for this that is not only a standard, but recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Its called the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language and is part of the semantic web. Without getting too technical, ccREL uses a technology called RDFa to express licensing information to machines so that they can deduce the same facts about a work (such as its title, author, and most importantly, its license) that humans can. If you're interested in the future of the web and structured data, you'll want to check out our wiki pages on RDFa, ccREL, and our white paper submitted to the W3C. Google has a page explaining RDFa and Yahoo has a page explaining how RDFa is used by Yahoo Search.
The easiest way to signal to both humans and robots that your content is CC licensed is to head over to our license chooser and choose a license to put on your own site.
Our license chooser automatically generates the proper ccREL code, so its easy! Don't forget to fill out the "Additional Information" section. You'll then get a snippet of XHTML embed that will contain ccREL. Place this near your work (preferably on its same page of the work which also happens to be unique) and you're all set. If you're running an entire content community, you can also dynamically generate this markup based on the particular user, title of the work and so on. Check out Thingiverse for a excellent example of this functionality.
Are you already using ccREL or RDFa on your website or platform? Let us know or add it to our Wiki page!2 Comments »
The Official Unofficial Creative Commons Facebook Application
Last weekend I spent Saturday morning writing the Creative Commons License Application for Facebook. The premise is simple: installing the application allows Facebook users choose and place a CC license badge on their profile page indicating which license they want their content to be available under. Alongside the badge is text that explains what content (Photos, Videos and Status & Profile text are currently available as options) is licensed.
This surrounding text also contains RDFa, though this is of limited utility to search engines since Facebook profiles are not yet publicly indexed.
Users also have the option to allow the application to update their status so that news of their license choice will appear in their friends' feed. Selecting this option will help grow our application's audience exponentially, so we would encourage you to choose it.
There are some limitations to this application and you should consider it in beta, so apologies in advance if things break or don't work properly. Perhaps the largest limitation is that works can only be licensed on a per-profile basis. This means that you must make the decision to license all of your work of a given media type (e.g., all of your photos) under a particular CC license or none at all. Unless Facebook integrates CC license choices into their Photo application, licensing works on a per-photo basis (as users have the freedom to do on sites like Flickr and Wikimedia Commons) is not possible. Thus, this implementation of a CC licenses on Facebook is a stop-gap solution to true integration into the service. If you've got other ideas or find other bugs for our application, please head over to our wiki and post them.
Otherwise, go now and install the Creative Commons License Application and let your friends know that you've chosen a CC license for your content on Facebook!
Thanks to everyone who helped me conceptualize and test this application, and especially to the "Creative Commons on Facebook" group of 5,000+ users who kept encouraging us to move forward.16 Comments »
Reminder: December Technology Summit Registration – Now with Student Rates
Just a quick reminder that registration is still open for the December Technology Summit taking place in Cambridge, MA. The program looks like a great set of presentations about technology that touches CC: RDFa, digital copyright registries, embedded metadata and more.
Registration is available online and we've added student rates at about half the normal rate: $40 or $25 for students who are also CC Network members (plus the option to buy both at the same time). Hope to see you there!Comments Off on Reminder: December Technology Summit Registration – Now with Student Rates
Thingiverse Launches with Stellar Commons Implementation
Bre Pettis, the uber-DIY hacker of NYC's Resistor space and self-replicator guru Zach Hoeken are launching Thingiverse today.
Thingiverse is an "object sharing" site that enables anyone to upload the schematics, designs, and images for their projects. Users can then download and reuse the work in their projects using their own laser cutters, 3D printers, and analog tools. Think of it as a Flickr for the Maker set.
Besides implementing our licenses, Bre and Zach have also gone the distance and allowed users to license works under the GNU GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses, as well as allowing them to release works into the public domain. Thingiverse uses our license wrappers for each of these licenses thereby enabling automatic indexing by machines like search engines.
Pushing the envelope even further, Thingiverse also fully implements our RDFa specification (just take a look at the source of any page with a CC license to see RDFa in action) for expressing licensing and authorship information on the semantic web. This means that aside from telling machines that a work is licensed under CC, Thingiverse also tells machines the title of a work, its author, and other interesting semantic information.
If you're looking for a fantastic example of how to implement the commons on a platform designed for sharing creativity, look no further than Thingiverse.
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CC Technology Summit Program and Registration available
Two months ago we announced the second CC Technology Summit, taking place December 12, 2008 in Cambridge, MA at MIT. The response to the call for presentations was good, and the initial program is now available. I'm excited about the mix of topics we have on the program. The day will include reports from our community, including a presentation on copyright registry interoperability by Safe Creative and Registered Commons and a report from the Queensland Treasury on their use of licensing and metadata. We'll also have presentations from within CC — a report on open source knowledge management from Science Commons and an update on what's next for RDFa.
Registration is also now open for the event. While the first Technology Summit was free thanks to Google's generous support, we do have costs associated with the December Technology Summit. To offset those costs, there is a registration fee: $50 for CC Network members or $75 for non-members. If you'd like to sign up for CC Network membership at the same time as you register, we've enabled that as well (no discount, though; $100 total).
It's been a busy year at CC and I'm looking forward to the Technology Summit as an opportunity to review what we've done and look ahead to 2009.Comments Off on CC Technology Summit Program and Registration available
SoundCloud Integrates CC-Licensing
SoundCloud, a new media sharing site aimed at musicians, has been receiving heaps of great press since going live last week. SoundCloud allows musicians to post their works easily, share them securely, interact with other musicians in a collaborative fashion, check stats on song listens/comments, and utilize a bevy of other useful features. Excitingly for the CC-community, SoundCloud announced today that users can now upload their works under a CC license or a public domain declaration. From SoundCloud:
The CC license support on SoundCloud is pretty straight-forward. You can pick a license when you upload a track, and you can set a default license in your settings. There are three main modes; All Rights Reserved, Some Rights Reserved, and No Rights Reserved. The default is All Rights Reserved, which means you own all rights to the works you upload.
You can also select the Some Rights Reserved-option which will give you a nice interface where you can assemble your Creative Commons license. You can select whether Commercial use is ok, whether derivative works are ok, or whether derivative works should be "shared" alike, meaning derivative works should be shared under the same conditions. Read more about CC licenses here.
Lastly, there's the No Rights Reserved-option if you want to let anybody do anything they like with your music.
A cool thing is that we've also got RDFa support so that all license information will be properly encoded for machine-reading directly in the track pages.
We are super excited to see this sort of support happen as it should greatly increase the functionality of SoundCloud for CC-using musicians and open the doors for a new repository of CC-licensed music. That SoundCloud has successfully implemented RDFa (making them one of the first CC-using content directories to do so) is similarly exciting. Learn more about SoundCloud here and if you are CC-using musician, try it out for yourself.2 Comments »
RDFa now a W3C recommendation; message from Hal Abelson
Yesterday RDFa, a technical standard Creative Commons has championed at the World Wide Web Consortium for five years, was made a W3C Recommendation — a standard for the web to build upon.
CC founding board member and MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson sends this message:
Dear Staff and Board,
I'm writing with some great news:
Today, the technical specification RDFa in XHTML Syntax and Processing was formally accepted as a Web Consortium Technical Recommendation by W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee.
Those the words might not mean much to any but the geekiest of us — but this is a big deal.
Creative Commons was a early adopter of Semantic Web standards. And yet, while the Semantic Web provided RDF as a standard for expressing metadata, it did not provide a standard for how that metadata should be integrated into ordinary Web pages.
The original concept of the Semantic Web did not encompass the notion that ordinary Web pages would be augmented with machine-readable metadata. Even today, that notion remains controversial. One considerable faction still holds that HTML should be purely a formatting language with no provision for any semantic information at all. Other factions, like microformats community, advocate metadata standards that do not integrate well into RDF and general Semantic Web applications.
CC licensing was the first use of the Web to envision Web publishers augmenting their pages with small amounts of machine-readable markup: the CC licensing attributes. It was our desire achieve this consistently with the Semantic Web that led to our involvement with the Web standards community; and the need to advocate for such a standard was why CC joined the Web Consortium in the first place.
RDFa is the standard that has emerged from this effort. RDFa is a general mechanism for expressing machine-readable attributes on Web pages in a way that is integrates with HTML. The most obvious example for us is the Creative Commons Rights Expression language (ccREL) — a machine-readable way to express CC licensing.
W3C's adoption today of the RDFa recommendation solidifies the technical underpinning of ccREL and opens the door to the development and widespread support for CC-compliant tools on the Web.
There are many people who deserve credit for RDFa. Mike Linksvayer and Nathan Yergler certainly get kudos for their consistent support and development of the CC infrastructure to emphasize RDFa and ccREL.
But the lion's share of the credit goes to Ben Adida, CC's W3C representative, who led this effort creatively and tirelessly. Ben's leadership in the technical design of RDFa and the negotiations and refinements to bring RDFa all the way through the complex Web standards process has been an effort of more than five years.
This work on RDFa not only has major benefit to CC, but it's a significant example CC providing technical leadership in Web community and a contribution that will have implications far beyond CC's own applications.
Ben deserves our sincerest thanks and congratulations.
== Hal
(Also check out Hal's starring role in the new Jesse Dylan video about Creative Commons, A Shared Culture.)
Congratulations and thanks to Ben and everyone else who has worked so hard on this effort for so many years.
If you're a web developer, check out RDFa and ccREL. A great place to start is Ben's Introduction to ccREL talk from our first CC technology summit held in June (slides and video available at the link; also check out the CFP for our upcoming December tech summit at MIT). Ben also recommends a new post from the founder of Drupal on Drupal, the semantic web and search.
Otherwise (and even if you are a web developer), the best way to support this work is by supporting Creative Commons. Our annual fundraising campaign just kicked off yesterday, so now is an excellent time to give.
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Isis mobile payment system, they touted a standalone service, powered by Discover's payment network, that would revolutionize the way we make small purchases on the move. Well, the revolution is still on schedule, apparently, but the big trio is now being said to have made a concession in reaching out to the incumbent leaders in this field, Visa and MasterCard. The Wall Street Journal cites multiple sources in reporting that Isis has turned into a less ambitious "mobile wallet" project that would seek to let you use your Visa or MasterCard account via your NFC-capable smartphone. As far as the consumer is concerned, it's still the same swipe-to-buy proposition, but the move was apparently necessary for Isis "to avoid falling further behind" in the race to corner this developing market. We'd say it's encouraging to see these guys showing a bit of swiftness -- it's about time the rest of the world caught up to Japan.
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Online exchanges help shoppers to be rid of unwanted gift cards
SAN JOSE, Calif. — So the good news is that Aunt Lula in Des Moines finally remembered your birthday. The bad news is that she sent you a gift card to TJ Maxx, and you'd rather eat bees than shop there.
What's a clothes horse to do• A burgeoning number of online card exchanges are making it possible to turn those unwanted cards into cash, cards from other retailers or even playing time on your favorite online games.
And because sellers of unused cards typically are forced to sell them at a discount, more and more people are buying from the exchange sites to cut costs.
Ruben Collazo, a software engineer in Tampa, Fla., has used websites such as GiftCardRescue and Plastic Jungle to score discount cards from retailers including Lowe's and Best Buy. "Over the last year, I've saved 9 percent overall," he said. "I can't get that kind of return in the stock market."
You can give or get cards for restaurants, movies, sporting goods, even Disneyland. "The total value of gift cards sold in 2010 was about $100 billion, and 10 percent of those go unused," said Kwame Kuadey, chief executive of GiftCardRescue, which is based near Baltimore.
"A lot of people don't know they can sell their gift cards for cash," Kuadey added.
That's slowly changing. New competitors are jumping into the market, and Kuadey says his site's revenues have quadrupled each of the past two years to $2 million.
Still, that's less than a quarter of the transactions handled on industry leader Plastic Jungle, which was started more than five years ago.
"There's now about $30 billion in unused gift cards out there," said Plastic Jungle CEO Bruce Bower. "There's a huge amount of value that's just gotten stuck in the economy."
Bower and Kuadey both said their companies buy gift cards for 80 to 85 percent of their face value and sell them for 85 to 90 percent of that value. The exchanges make money by pocketing the difference.
The CEO of a brand-new entrant in the market says that aspect of the card-exchange phenomenon is unfair. "It's very important to us that if you have a gift card for $20, you get $20 for it," said Marc Rochman, who launched Redwood City, Calif.-based Openbucks last week.
Rochman is a veteran of the card industry; he founded Card USA, which manufactures hundreds of millions of gift and prepaid mobile cards for retailers. "From the large chains like Starbucks down to the local bakery, almost everybody has a gift card program," he notes. And recently, online gaming companies like Zynga have been getting into the act.
Rochman's idea: Letting consumers use the same cards at a host of different retailers, online or off. Openbucks has forged agreements with a handful of major chains, including Subway and CVS Pharmacy, to allow their cards to be spent at game sites such as World Golf Tour and Parallel Kingdom.
Rochman said that not only gives consumers another way to use cards they've received as gifts but lets people who don't have access to credit cards — including teens — participate in online commerce. After a beta launch five months ago, Rochman says his site already has tens of thousands of users.
Of course, any fast-growing market draws its share of potential scammers. Kuadey and Bower say their companies provide safer alternatives to buying cards on outlets like Craigslist or eBay, because the exchanges offer money-back guarantees to users who might get stuck with a fraudulent card. Plastic Jungle even works with card retailers on the front end to verify cards sold on the site are valid.
Still, Bower allows, "There are instances where there's fraud in the system."
Bill Hardekopf, CEO of LowCards.com , warns shoppers to steer clear of sites that ask for a Social Security number or bank account.
"If they start asking you for personal information, that would be a red flag for me," said Hardekopf, whose Birmingham, Ala., company helps consumers research and choose among credit card offers.
Collazo, the Tampa shopper, adds that it's important to check a site's terms and conditions carefully, since shipping and return policies can vary and some sites won't replace cards lost in the mail.
But overall, "What I like about this industry is there are no undisclosed 'gotchas' anywhere," said Collazo. "There aren't any shipping costs or hidden fees; if you want a $100 card, you pay $80.
"It's a great way to save money."Additional Information:
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Here are some of the leading online exchanges that let consumers swap or sell unwanted gift cards.
Cardpool : Founded in 2009, San Francisco startup is backed by Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway, Max Levchin, Chris Sacca and Paul Buchheit, among other top angel investors. http://www.cardpool.com .
CardWoo : With a debut last year, Florida company is a sister to controversial mail-in gold reseller Cash4Gold. http://www.cardwoo.com .
GiftCardRescue: Maryland firm launched in 2008 by MBA student has bootstrapped its own funding. http://www.giftcardrescue.com .
Plastic Jungle: Five-year-old San Jose company has landed more than $23 million in venture capital and says it's the largest such marketplace for gift cards. http://www.plasticjungle.com .
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Without Purse or Scrip in Texas: 15 January – 4 February 1900
Monday, January 15, 1900
After we had breakfast, we went out in the fields and helped Grandpa roll some big logs, after which we walked back and packed up our grips and started out for another week. Walking about 5 miles we came to Bro. Tony Berritt's place. He wished us to stay overnight with him. In the afternoon we went out and helped him cut and pile up timber, then after supper we sang songs and talked until bedtime.
Tuesday, January 16, 1900
After breakfast we went out with him again and helped him cut timber until noon, then we helped him make fence, staying with him again overnight.
Wednesday, January 17, 1900
We went out and helped him make fence until noon when we went over to his brother's place where we ate dinner. Then we went out where they were rolling logs, staying overnight with Archy Berritt.
Thursday, January 18, 1900
We were intending to leave but got to talking and it was noon before we knew it. After noon we went out with Bro. Berritt and helped him burn bush until night when we came back to his house where we stayed with him again overnight, receiving very good treatment. The weather was cloudy all the time.
Friday, January 19, 1900
The weather being very cloudy and cold, we left Bro. Archy Berritt's place, walking into Dr. Cooper's place where we had been invited to come and preach, but finding no one home, we went on a couple of miles when we met one of the boys. He had us come back and we appointed two meetings, one for Saturday at 3 o'clock and one for 11 on Sunday. We stayed all night with him and they gave us some music on the violin.
Saturday, January 20, 1900
Getting up in the morning, the weather was as clear as could be, but was quite cool. After breakfast we walked over to one of his houses and fixed up some seats, then going back for dinner. At 2 o'clock Elder Dean and I went back again to hold meeting. We had a good time and went back to Dr. Cooper's place where we stayed overnight.
Sunday, January 21, 1900
Staying around the house talking with the people until 2 o'clock, we then went over to the house and held another meeting, having a very large crowd. After meeting we went home with Bro. Stricklin's where we stayed overnight.
Monday, January 22, 1900
After breakfast we left Bro. Stricklin's and walked over to Bro. Archy Berritt's place, getting there in time for dinner. After dinner he had to go into town so he told us to stay around that afternoon and night with his folks. He said he would be back about dark.
Tuesday, January 23, 1900
Getting up before day and eating breakfast, we went out and helped him catch four chickens, then going out in his field, helped him roll logs until noon. After dinner we walked to Bro. Huffman's where we met Elder Hunsaker who had come to travel with me, having a good time that night.
Wednesday, January 24, 1900
The weather cloudy and quite warm, staying with Bro. Huffman all day waiting for Elder Dean's release to come and writing some letters. After supper, Elder Dean and Hunsaker went to the office but his release was not there.
Thursday, January 25, 1900
Leaving Bro. Huffman's about 10 o'clock and bidding Elder Dean goodby, we left, going into Hemphill then going south, walking about 13 miles when we stopped in to Dr. Smith's place as night was coming. We talked to him a little while and then he asked us to stay overnight with him. After supper we explained our views of the gospel unto them, having a very good time. The weather was nice and pleasant all day.
Friday, January 26, 1900
The weather cloudy and quite cold, we left Dr. Smith's walking to Fairmount, where we got into conversation with a Baptist preacher. At first he wouldn't accept any of our literature but when we left him, he took a pamphlet and was a little friendly. We walked on 4 miles further to Mount Sonia, where we were rejected three times, the people being very cool towards us. As night was coming on, we met a good man by the name of A. McGraw who kindly took us in and treated us very good. We sang to them and held prayers with them before we retired to rest. They gave us a good bed and we had a good night's rest.
Saturday, January 27, 1900
The weather cloudy and quite cool, we arose after having a good night's rest and ate a good hearty breakfast. Then after talking with the family a short time, we bid them good day and went on our way rejoicing. We walked up by the store. After we had got a-past they fired 10 shots, thinking that it would scare us but it did not do any good. We were rejected five times and one, a young lady, had the impudence to laugh in our faces while we were talking. We visited all of the houses in that community, then left without holding any meeting. We passed through Fairmount and then went out to the Dee community, which we reached about dark.
Sunday, January 28, 1900
Staying overnight with Bro. Clark, the weather cloudy and cold. It being the Sabbath day we did not wish to travel so we got permission to stay over with this family. They were not very friendly towards us. They gave us a room and built us a nice fire and kept plenty wood on hand all day. They occupied one room and us another. They gave us a nice dinner and treated us all right, but did not have much to say to us. Every once in a while we could hear them say something about the Mormons. Elder Hunsaker could hardly keep from going in where they were but did not want to have trouble so stayed out.
Monday, January 29, 1900
The weather clear but awful cold. We left Bro. Clark's after staying over Sunday and two nights with them. We walked through the woods over to his brother's place where we had quite a long talk upon the gospel. Leaving him we went on about two miles. When we came to a creek we stopped there and had a shave and then went up to Bro. Parker's talking with him a while. He being desirous of hearing us preach, sent his boys around and told the people to come to his house that night. The weather being awful cold, there weren't many came out. We held a short meeting, taking up the first principles of the gospel.
Tuesday, January 30, 1900
Staying with Bro. Parker and also preaching at his house. The weather had moderated a little but was awful cloudy and was raining a little. We left him, going into a nigger community where we sold two Voices of Warning to them. Then going on through the timber hunting out our road and visiting the families wherever we could find them. In the middle of the afternoon we came to a schoolhouse on the road with a few families scattered around close to it. We got permission to preach there that night and the people said they would all come out. We went there after dark and waited there until 8 o'clock but wasn't only one man came out. He took us home with him and we had a good night's rest.
Wednesday, January 31, 1900
Getting up in the morning we found the sky to be clear but awful cold. We stayed overnight with Bro. J.T. Blunt who was very friendly towards us. After breakfast we started on our way, walking about four miles through the timber without passing a house. We came to one by the name of Walker who invited us in and gave us permission to preach in the schoolhouse. We appointed a meeting for Thursday night. He gave us our dinner and we had quite a long talk with him. After dinner we walked on about two miles when we came to Bro. Berryman's who invited us in and had us stay overnight with him. We sang them some songs and also listened to their boys play some music which was very good.
Thursday, February 1, 1900
Receiving very good treatment from Berryman and having a good time, we went on our way. Walked into Brookland where we got our mail and was glad to hear from home once more. The weather was nice and warm. We started back toward Stringtown where we had an appointment to preach that night. We visited the families along the road and explained the gospel unto them wherever we had the chance to do so. We called into Bro. Brandon's in the afternoon, where we stayed until meeting time. Then walking to the schoolhouse and finding quite a large crowd there, we commenced. Elder Hunsaker took up the most of the time on the first principles. The crowd gave good attention.
Friday, February 2, 1900
Bro. Walker took us home and we had a good night's rest, talking with him a while in the morning. Then bidding him goodbye we started for Bro. Berryman's, reaching his place about noon. We ate a fine dinner, after which we sang them a few songs, then going out in the field with his boys, we stayed until night. Then going into the house we had a shave. After supper we got to singing for them again. We sang everything we knew. They also sang a few and one of the boys played some music on the violin which sounded very good. We held prayers with them and then retired to rest but I did not sleep very good as I had a cold and it bothered me a little.
Saturday, February 3, 1900
The weather quite warm but cloudy. After breakfast we started on our way to Brooklin. We stopped at a branch where Elder Hunsaker had a bath. I did not take one as I was afraid of making my cold worse. We went in to town and got permission of the pastor of the Christian Church to hold services in their church house. After that we began to announce the meeting around through the community. At 2 o'clock we met Elders Morgan and Randall who had come to separate us. All four of us stayed over till Monday. We held meeting at night in which I was called on to speak to the people. After meeting we all went home with J.H. Solby, where we spent a nice evening talking together. It was always a time of rejoicing when the elders meet together.
Sunday, February 4, 1900
The weather awful foggy when we got up, but was all gone about 9 o'clock. It being the first Sunday in the month, we all observed the fast. The people all thought it very funny to see us fast. At 11 o'clock we began meeting with about 75 members present. Elder Morgan was the speaker. He took up repentance and baptism, then closing, telling the people to meet again at 3 o'clock. We had several invitations home for dinner but did not accept any as we told them that we were fasting. At 3 o'clock the people came in. We had about 65 present. Elder Hunsaker took up the time upon the Holy Ghost, Authority, and Church Organization. We enjoyed the spirit of the Lord very much. Elder Hunsaker and myself went home with Bro. Bell. He was a wealthy man.


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Mary Berry's Christmas chutney
By Mary Berry
Cooking timeTakes about 2½ hours
Skill levelModerately easy
ServingsMakes about 2.5kg/6lb
A perfect match for cheese and cold meats, and delicious in turkey sandwiches
Nutrition and extra info
- kcalories
- -
- protein
- -
- carbs
- -
- fat
- -
- saturates
- -
- fibre
- -
- sugar
- -
- salt
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- 900g tomatoes
- 3 red peppers, 1 large aubergine and 1 green pepper (total weight of about 900g/2lb)
- 700g onions, peeled and fairly finely chopped, by hand or in a food processor
- 4 fat cloves garlic, crushed
- 350g granulated sugar
- 300ml/½pint white wine vinegar or distilled malt vinegar
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 2 tsp cayenne pepper
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- Peel the tomatoes - prick them with a sharp knife, place in a bowl and cover with boiling water. Leave for a few seconds then drain and cover with cold water. The skins will now come away easily.
- Chop the tomatoes and aubergine and seed and chop the peppers. Put in a large heavy-based pan with the onions and garlic and bring to the boil. Cover with a lid, lower the heat and gently simmer for about one hour, stirring occasionally, until tender.
- Tip the sugar, vinegar, salt, coriander, paprika and cayenne into the pan and bring to the boil over a medium heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved. Continue to boil for 30 minutes or so, until the mixture achieves a chunky chutney consistency and the surplus watery liquid has evaporated. Take care towards the end of the cooking time to continue stirring so that the chutney doesn't catch on the bottom of the pan.
- Ladle the chutney into sterilised or dishwasher-clean jars (Kilner jars are ideal) and top with paper jam covers. Seal the jars while still hot. Leave to mature for at least a month in a cool dark place.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2002
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Comments, questions and tips
Made this as a gift last christmas, since then i have had to make batches every few months as my husband (who has always hated all chutneys) gets very upset if we run out. I know its a christmas reciepe but it tastes great on burgers over the summer too. Definitly halve the cayenne pepper unless you like your chutney to have a kick.
Highly recommended. Been making this chutney for past 4 years now. Very easy to make & very popular with friends & family alike. A jar as a christmas pressie is now expected by all the family!!! Agree with other comments - it does need much longer than 30 minutes to reduce down. Like the idea of a swig of balsamic - will have to give it a go next time!!
This was my first attempt at making a chutney and I'm not disappointed with the results. It is absolutely beautiful! Having read in some other reviews that the cayenne can be over powering, I was a bit worried about using the full amount listed but did so to be true to the recipe. I tried some chutney before I put it into jars and it was quite spicy but now five weeks later I can safely say it has mellow and is just a lovely kick to a beautiful chutney! Delicious!
Soooo I made a big batch of this last night, super easy to make once the prep was out of the way, and really cheap as well, so great for anyone doing as xmas gifts!
Quick question to those who have made previously, does the "kick" die down during the 1 month maturing period?? I had a taste before jarring up and booooooy did it pack a punch.. I had to double check and remember which spoon I used to add the cayenne because I was worried I'd done 2 tbsp instead of tsp.. But nope, defo did the right amounts. Anyone else find that it was super spicy??
I dont mind because I like spicy foods, but i'm giving this to my Nan for xmas! Dont want to blow her head off! Ha!!
Thanks for you help :)
I Loved this recipe, i made it for the first time this year and will be making it every year from now on. I have a question though - How did you store the chutney after making it? it says to store in a cool dark place but i was scared to store in my cupboards in case it went off! I labelled mine and bought some gingham material to put on top! I made 2 batches each making 6 jam jar sized jars.
I'm almost ready for Christmas now.
sorry, should have added to my previous comment, I managed to fill 7-8 approx 235g jars (the small ones you tend to get mint sauce in) both times :)
as my first batches were a last minute thing, i bought supermarket own brand condiments at 22pence each(and will use in other recipe's!), and emptied the jars out! having tasted it, i'm sure I'll get the jars returned for a re-fill next year!!
i love this recipe! i tried it yesterday, and it was really easy - and even tasted amazing as it was cooling down with out evening meal!
in fact, we loved it so much that we made a second batch today!! in today's, I added a little more sugar, and held back a bit on the cayenne pepper as my fiance prefers a sweeter taste - both have turned out really nice though!
I didn't find the same issues as some other people seem to have, the times were pretty much spot on. I used a 40cm high sided / wide based wok/frying pan type though, so there was a decent amount of heat surface, and plenty of top surface for reduction. it worked really well!
I can't wait until Christmas to try them both once they've matured a little :)
My oh my! This is my second batch of this fantastic chutney and I only made the first batch last week!. The smells were amazing and I know if it tastes as good as it looks in the jar it's going to be absolutely amazing. It will definately become a regular thing in our home and as soon as the jars start wittleing down in the larder I'll be off to the shop to get more ingredients. Well done Mrs Berry X
I made this the other day to add to Christmas hampers.
A very easy chutney recipe which tasted delicious even before maturing. Mine took about an hour from the point of adding the vinegar to be at chutney consistancy.
Also if it helps those questioning the quantities, mine filled 4 jam jar style jars with a little left over for "testing" straight from the saucepan!
I have just made this and it makes around 4 x 1lb jars. I just wish after having a sneeky lick of the spoon at the end of the cooking process I had made double the ammount. Seriously strong and kicking chutney. Can't wait to give as prezies this year along with some pickled onions and mincemeat. (All homemade of course)


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