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Roadmap?Posted Wednesday, 31 December, 2008 - 15:10 by JTalton in
Hey all,
Things are going well. Slowly coding away. I am hoping to release a new version of Golem (it's been a year!) soon that is built on OpenTK using the GameWindow, fonts, and cross-platform support. I'm still really excited about OpenTK. Holding my breath for some of the new features. I know there is the issue tracking system, but is there a roadmap for new features? I am trying to change my schedule around to find more time outside of work and family to devote to coding. Is there anything I can help with in OpenTK?
New Font Support
I am patiently waiting and hoping for this.
OpenGL 3.0 Support
Hoping to remove deprecated functions and move to OpenGL 3.0. Waiting on support.
Mac OS X Support
Looking good! Very excited to have this support.
GameWindow Support: Window Icon - Window Placement - Mouse Grab
I am looking forward to these enhancements.
Nice question, what would be the roadmap of features for 2009? I am a bit worried that the new OpenGL3 release will bring more work on fellow developers (like porting pieces of code and hunting bugs), making the features left behind.
Either way, the more developers exist, the better would be...
I am in the mood to help in OpenTK development, but currently I can't track any easy task that suits my skills :(
Personally, my wish for OpenTK is to get a high-level library that would make application development even more rapid, like an XNA alternative ;)
So Fiddler has the final say on this of course, but here is my take on a couple of those issues. I think we're close to 0.9.2, once the font stuff gets all fixed on linux. Last time I checked the trunk it seemed to work but I did not do any thorough testing at all, so maybe there are still issues being resolved. Once 0.9.2 is released, I will probably merge the Mac OS branch into the trunk so there will be MacOS support in 0.9.3. The only major feature missing there is fullscreen support, which I hope to start working on early next week.
I also would like to have window icon and mouse grab support in GameWindow. The mouse grab I think is mostly a matter of settling on an API that's consistent. Icon support will be a little more work because each OS has its own icon format, and the System.Drawing.Icon class is a bit deficient, since one cannot pull out particular sizes of icons using it, and what you'd really want for window icons is to be able to convert all appropriate sizes in an icon to the type required by the OS. This shouldn't be difficult, but it will take a bit of research and coding. So that doesn't answer your question on a roadmap for this feature, but I think it shouldn't be too many versions away. :)
I think JTalton has covered the roadmap for the close future.
Kanato has been working on the Mac OS X port, Inertia has identified the pieces for GL3 support and I've been hacking together a WinForms/GLControl-based GameWindow with Kamujin's timing patches (which I've apparently forgotten to push to svn).
Mac OS X Support
Once we decide how to proceed with the GameWindow (see below), this is probably ready to merge to trunk - if kanato and Inertia agree.
GameWindow Support
I've been wondering if a WinForms-based GameWindow would be better:
- We push most platform-specific code down to .Net/Mono (better tested and OpenTK.dll should lose some weight!)
- We automatically gain all requested features (window placement, icons, notifications etc)
- We become reliant on the WinForms dll. This is already the case, so small loss here.
- We lose on keyboard/mouse support (no left/right key detection, only 5 mouse buttons.) This can be worked around by hooking the current implementation to the native message queue (easy on windows, any idea how to do this on linux / macos?)
- We might lose some speed on Mono due to the WM translation layer (probably insignificant, but cannot say without testing.)
- Afaik, WinForms on Mac OS X need X11 installed (not running.) Would this be an issue in practice?
I quite like this idea as it would make the code quite a bit simpler, but I'd like to hear your opinions here!
New Font Support
I'm still not satisfied with the text renderer (and apparently I'll never be, unless it goes all the way to Uniscribe and Mono.Pango), but at least the hard work is more-or-less done. Two pieces remain: fix GL1.1 support and lock down the API. (I'll post an overview here and more details on the issue tracker.)
The issue with GL1.1 is that it cannot modulate RGBA textures by color with alpha-blending enabled. One solution is to render in two passes, but this introduces artifacts when text overlaps. The other, simpler solution is to disable cleartype and use alpha textures instead of RGBA ones.
Regarding the API, we'll have to decide whether TextPrinter.Begin/End are desirable and how to specify the rendering position, color and, possibly, a projection matrix.
OpenGL 3.0 Support
Right now we are working on the full GL3 profile. We are still missing the new context creation logic for each platform and the type-safe enums.
Once that is done, we can add the forward-compatible GL3 profile (probably by copying the relevant parts of the specs by hand.)
Edit: Missed your post, kanato, but I just ran out of time. See you next year! :D
I am pretty sure that WinForms on OS X no longer requires X11.
As far as a WinForms based GameWindow, I think all of the negatives are trivial except for the possibility that it will introduce limitations on input system. In my opinion, full mouse and keyboard support are critical features.
Afaik, WinForms on Mac OS X need X11 installed (not running.) Would this be an issue in practice?
Mono implementation of Windows.Forms on MacOSX does not require X11. At least with latest Mono 2.0.1 I am able to run winforms applications without installing X11.
Are you running winforms apps on Tiger or Leopard? I thought Leopard comes with X11 installed already, so I'd want to be sure that WinForms works on Tiger without X11 to be convinced. Maybe I can test this by uninstalling X11...
My understanding of the OSX / X11 issue is that X11 had to be installed for Mono's fonts to work, so this is really a limitation of System.Drawing.dll and not System.Windows.Forms.dll. Which means that whether we use a WinForms GameWindow or not we still will have this limitation in the fonts.
WinForms GameWindow:
I should experiment with doing this a little bit. WinForms applications typically look rather out of place on MacOS because they come in with a lot of Windows-isms (ie. menu bars are inside windows). For GameWindow, I think it won't be an issue but it's something that should be checked.
As far as hooking to the native message queue, it's easy on MacOS. It allows you to register multiple event handlers for windows, etc. so we can register our own event handler without conflicting with Mono's. I'm not sure what order event handlers are called for an event though, but if we want to go this route I can do some experimentation.
flopoloco: I think one contribution you could do is build example-programs. Such examples, covering larger and larger areas of the OpenTK API, will make OpenTK more robust/performant on different platforms. Each example could concentrate on some specific feature of the OpenGL API (like Nehes classic GL tut's).
Maybe a small game? Pong? Tetris? Missile attack?
"Is there anything I can help with in OpenTK?"
Like objarni said, one thing everyone can contribute to OpenTK are example programs. They don't have to be awesome pretty, nor contain the most 1337 optimizations man has seen so far, but simply verify that a certain extension (or multiple extensions used together) work flawlessly and all required tokens can be found in the enums used by the Extension's functions. The example may contain material which has already been covered in another example (it will be very hard to write a GL program that does not use GL.Begin() or GL.Draw*** commands) but ideally it will test some unique features.
Here are some (ambitious) ideas what could be done (nowhere a todo list or complete in any way)
- Pick a Nehe Example (or any other tutorial/example you liked) and port it to OpenTK.
- Fractals are very fun. (e.g. this one should look pretty awesome when using tetraeder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpinski_triangle)
- Some application for testing Transform Feedback.
- An example that uses (ideally both) instancing Extensions. (Bonus points can be earned by adding instancing hacks :P)
- A test scenario for the Occlusion Query Extension.
- Any implementation of a shadow algorithm.
- A GLControl example that iterates through all texture formats and then allows the user to pick a supported format from the list and let the application show a texture in that format.
- Replicate Alut's functions to procedurally generate noise. (C source code for freealut may be a starting point)
How about renaming the current GameWindow to NativeWindow (or similar) instead of abandoning it? At very least pinball simulators make use of the left/right key distinction, and the existing code is tested and works.
[Mac OS X Support]
Cannot really make a statement about this due to the lack of a test system, but imo it should be merged to trunk as soon as it's stable enough to run the examples. It will take one version increment to iron out all problems, so the sooner it gets into trunk and used by people, the faster the problems can be identified.
[Font Support with GL1.1]
I would really not bother with a GL 1.1 fallback, unless someone really manages to dig out some hardware that does not support the required Extensions. Last time I checked, you get DirectX 10 low-end cards for 40€ ....
[OpenGL 3.0 Support]
The worst parts (merging 2.1/3.0 specs and identifying function/enum changes) are already done, Context creation is a chapter on it's own because - although only very few attributes were added to context creation itself - we should consider allowing contexts with sRGB or floating point framebuffers as opposed to RGBA8-only framebuffers. Hardware support for this is not yet widespread, but it is improving.
P.S. Oh, and Happy New Year 2009!
You are right, examples and tutorials are definitely needed.
[Renaming the GameWindow to NativeWindow and writing WinForms based GameWindow]
I've been thinking about this more, and I think this is the best solution. Probably the best approach would be to just add a windows form that implements INativeGLWindow (perhaps rename the interface to IGameWindowImplementation or something) and maybe have a static flag somewhere that would select whether the GLControl based IGameWindowImplementation object is created, or the native implementation is created.


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Stewart signed a multi-year contract to race with Gibbs' motocross division, known as JGRMX. Gibbs expanded into motocross racing in 2008 and is to the point where it wants to compete for a championship, so it needed to find a capable rider. Stewart was looking for a new team but has also wanted to try his hand at racing cars, which he will be able to do within the vast Gibbs organization.
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Ijust concluded several months of conversations with a dealer in my region. We agreed that he needed to take advantage of the used bike sales opportunities in our area.
Eventually, he plans to build a separate facility and showroom for his used bike operation. But for now he hasn't even made his staff aware of his used bike plans. That's unfortunate, because everyone needs to be on board for a used bike program to work.
Recently his dealership, an American V-twin single-branded store, accepted a metric cruiser as a trade-in from a customer for a new motorcycle. The used bike manager approached service about doing basic reconditioning on the trade-in — an oil and filter change, cable and chain lube, a state inspection, and general clean-up and detailing.
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If you've never really dealt with used bikes before, make it clear that this new initiative is a big commitment for the store. Enlist the support of all sales associates. Answer everyone's questions. And make sure the managers have smiles on their faces. Everyone should know that creating and successfully maintaining a used bike program require a change of thinking.
So what happened after the service writer blew off our used bike manager's request? The service manager interjected. "We'll get it handled," he said.
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If you're a single-brand dealership, you're not limited to that brand when it comes to securing pre-owned inventory.
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Another segment from Use Your Hallucinations: MONDO 2000 in the Late 20th Century Cyberculture
One fine Sunday, we had a party — it may have been for the release of one of our newsletters — and it was possibly the biggest we'd ever had. The backyard at Quail House looked almost like a small rock festival as attendees found their spots and, no doubt, dosed themselves with favorite hallucinogens.
I had just received a fairly large bundle of 5-meo-DMT, a substance similar to DMT (and the stuff that Queen Mu had discovered was in a certain type of toad venom) — but unlike DMT, a full dose was 5 instead of 35 milligrams. The experience was perhaps even more intense, but rather than entering a colorful infinitely-dimensional funhouse filled with elves and clowns, some of whom may try to convey a message, 5-meo put you into something very much like that tunnel heading towards the white light reported by so many who had been pulled back from death.
I must have been bored, because as the sun was starting to set — and after smoking a double dose — I decided to turn on every person there.
Feeling like a cosmic assassin on a mission to blow away everyone's last shred of attachment to any and all social constructs, I set out with my pipe and my bundle.
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A few weeks later, I heard that this party was rather the last straw for some responsible members of the psychedelic community. I specifically heard strongly worded objections from a fellow psuedonymned D.M. Turner, who would later be instrumental in popularizing Salvia Divinorum amongst the psychedelic cognoscente. In fact, when he came up with a formula for orally active salvia, he refused to share it with me, largely on the basis of the infamous 5-meo DMT party. (D.M. later drowned in his bathtub after injecting ketamine, a fact that I don't share with some sort of perverse sense of triumph. He was a truly sweet guy and he was probably right in objecting to my day as a cosmic assassination.)


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On Boeing, Innovation, Competition, and Job Cuts
What's that old saying, actions speak louder than words? Boeing Chairman and CEO James McNerney stepped onto the soapbox on Feb. 19 to decry the quality of U.S. education, warning that the nation is producing too few STEM graduates—science, technology, engineering, and math—to compete against China, India, and "places in the Middle East." Borrowing a term, he added in a speech in Chicago to alumni of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management that the U.S. faces an "innovation deficit."
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A perfect example came during the second day of the California Interscholastic Federation state championships at Buchanan High in Clovis on Saturday.
In her first state final of the day, Wallace exploded out of the blocks in the 100 hurdles and had a sizable lead halfway through the race. She finished with a time of 13.33 seconds, the fastest wind-legal time in the nation, according to the DyeStat Elite 100 high school rankings. It was also the sixth-fastest time in California high school history.
"She nailed that hurdle race. She was dead-on," said Curtis Taylor, Wallace's club coach with the East Oakland Youth Development Center.
Then Wallace proceeded to the triple jump pit and essentially locked up another state title with her first leap. It was the shortest of her four marks (40 feet, 11 inches), but still would have won the competition by 10 inches. Her best mark came in the fifth round (41-53/4). She is the girls high school national leader this season (42-43/4, the 10th-best mark in California high school history).
For her excellence, Wallace has been named the Bay Area News Group East Bay Female Athlete of the Year.
"It was a really, really good season for me," Wallace said. "All the competitors pushed me and I was in great fields of athletes."
Wallace's humility is just one of her outstanding traits. She also has a knack for staying cool under pressure -- literally. In her state championship events, Wallace wore a long-sleeved white uniform top and endured the Fresno area's blazing weather, which topped 100 degrees on Friday.
But Wallace handled pressure well all season. For example, at the North Coast Section Bay Shore Area Championships, she had foot fouls on her first two attempts in the triple jump. If she fouled again, her high school season in that event would end.
Wallace started her third jump inches before the board and sailed 41-0 to win the event.
"I just moved back a couple steps so I would be behind the board," Wallace said later. "I was trying to not look at the board and take off wherever I was at 16 steps."
At the NCS Meet of Champions the next week, Wallace nearly matched her season-best in the triple jump, which was set at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 21. Wallace soared 42 feet, 31/4 inches to win the NCS Meet of Champions on May 25. The next day, she was victorious in the 100 hurdles final by .42 seconds.
The assumption was that her races would be significantly closer at the state championships, but they weren't. In her 100 hurdles preliminary heat on June 1, Wallace won by .35 in 13.40, the fastest wind-legal mark in the state for the event at the time. Long Beach Poly's Traci Hicks, who has the fastest all-condition time in the state (a wind-aided 13.22), was in second place.
In the finals Saturday, Wallace was victorious over second-place Jordie Munford of Rancho Cucamonga by .25.
"How many people can say they lead the nation in two events?" Taylor said. "Heck of a season."
We agree.
Online extra
For a complete list of the East Bay's top 125 high school athletes and their accomplishments, and a slide show of some of the athletes in action, visit www.contracostatimes.com/high-schools-sports or www.insidebayarea.com/high-school-sports.


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Since Way of the Wolf published in 2003, Knight has seen publication of 2 more Vampire Earth novels – Choice of the Cat and the recently (March 2005) published Tale of the Thunderbolt. Late in 2004, Knight kicked off the Lara Croft/Tombraider franchise for Del Rey books and will see another Vampire Earth novel (Valentine's Rising) publish in December 2005 as well as Dragon Champion, the first of a new high fantasy saga. E.E. Knight's Web site can be viewed at: http://www.vampjac.com/vampireearth/ and he runs a forum at: http://www.fossilrecords.net/vampireearth/index.php I corresponded with E.E. Knight over e-mail recently…
Rob Bedford: Your first two Vampire Earth novels published in 2003 and 2004, respectively, to positive response, and by the end of this year you will add another 3 books to the list, in addition to the Lara Croft novel published last August. An impressive string of books in your first three years, to say the least. Was it strict disciple that afforded you the ability to publish so much so early in your writing career? Or something else?
E.E. Knight: Backlog, pure and simple. I was doing Vampire Earth novels for years on native faith and chutzpah. While WOLF gathered rejections up and down Manhattan I kept plugging away at the next, and after that the next. The third was written by the time the first was sold, so it wasn't as though I had to scramble to come up with book 2.
The Lara Croft novel was a financial stopgap that came at just the right time. I'd sold the first threeVampire Earth novels for a lowball figure and it helped fill a hole in my checking account until the royalty checks for the VE books got going.
The high fantasy project, Dragon Champion, percolated for a long time. I worked on it here and there when I needed a change of pace from VE, so pulling it together and turning it into a novel was a natural step as soon as I got my first Roc contract
RB: Way of the Wolf was initially published with iPublish. How did you make the move to a more traditional publisher, ROC books?
EEK: The unfortunately-named iPublish (scans to me of self-publication, but that wasn't the case, AOL/Time Warner Book Group ran it) met a fast demise in the dot-com Challenger/Hindenburg/ Titanic — choose your metaphor according to taste — wreck. . . one month after they produced WOLF, actually. No one ever established a correlation between the two events.
By a happy chance I met my agent, John Silbersack, through Mr. Paul Witcover at World Fantasy Con 2001 in Montreal. He extracted my rights from the iPublish wreckage in one of the most deft bits of career salvage I've every heard of and sold me rikki-tik to Penguin/Roc. Of course it helped that Claire Zion, executive editor at iPublish before flame-out, landed at Penguin, and I had a bit of a vamp fan in Laura Anne Gilman at Roc. So you see I've been lucky. Further proof that God looks out for children and fools.
RB: From perusing your Web site (http://www.vampjac.com/vampireearth) the Vampire Earth books have a RPG background, and you've got an impressive amount of background information for the world posted. How long did the world develop before you began seriously considering publishing?
EEK: The world had its first iteration in an "Aftermath" RPG campaign. My gaming group really liked the world, sort of Omega Man as realized by George A. Romero with French Resistance flair, and I always felt it would make a great something. Screenplay, book, role-playing-game, first-person-shooter, whatever. One night shortly after I turned thirty I had one of those drunken Peggy Lee "Is That All There Is?" epiphanies and decided to go back to writing, something I'd messed around with in high school and college but never seriously pursued. I started taking classes at my local community college and reading books about writing, joining writer's groups, and so on. Anyway it got me out of the house and away from all my Squad Leader supplements.
The world lay fallow for over a decade while I occupied myself with selling dog food and french fries. But Vampire Earth was always rolling around in the back of my mind. When I finally realized I should write to please myself rather than an imagined audience of editors and fans, I got out the defibrillator and revived the auld sod.
RB: When I've recommended the books to other people, I always say the books have a somewhat pulpy feel to them. What writers and/or stories would you consider the strongest influences on the VE venue?
EEK: Lovecraft, as you've probably noticed. H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds was the first vampires-from-space story. Anything John C. Campbell would have liked, I've always been drawn to stories about solitary, competent men. Matheson's I Am Legend. Probably the single genre that most influences VE is Westerns, oddly enough. Like Warring States Samurai stuff and Pirate-age books, Westerns (and my dystopic post-apocs) are stories of either a lawless land or one where justice is decided by the strong. There's plenty of room for your hero to be heroic in that kind of setting.
RB: How important has the Internet been for the flourishing of the Vampire Earth, especially considering the forums you have?
EEK: The Internet allows me to interact with my fans in what amounts to real time. While I write to please and entertain myself, I do listen to what my fans have to say and try to give them the things they ask for most. Probably the #1 thing I hear about right now is "more Bears." You'll see a lot of them up-close in #4 but Val has a couple things to do yet before he becomes one.
RB: Vampire novels are almost a dime a dozen nowadays, practically a genre unto itself.
EEK: Agreed. I'll take the Seinfeld out and say "not that there's anything wrong with that."
RB: However, you have managed to inject a more science fictional flavor to these books than many of the predecessors. Have you seen a stronger response from Science Fiction fans or fans of Vampire Fiction?
EEK: Oh wow, I mean, can we talk? I'm always ready to talk up my fans so let me say this: the vast majority of the mail I get comes from people who read widely, often multiple genres plus nonfiction. There is a bit of a hurdle getting core SF fans to read it. Most are like: "C'mon, vampires? Gimme a break!" and yes, it's not Asimov or P.K. Dick or even Star Wars-style space g gshootouts (see Seinfeld defense above) but it is operatic action with a generous dose of aliens, good and evil, a deep alternate history for the poor Earthling livestock, plus the occasional sexy bit. I'm not an idea guy buy any means, I'm more of a story guy. If you liked Battlefield Earth or Starship Troopers or Footfall or Ringo's Human-Posleen War you'll probably grok Vampire Earth.
RB: Did the overall story and world start out as dystopic sf or vampire fiction? Or did the two ideas come together at the same time?
EEK: Dystopic sf. I'm an old Orwell hand.
RB: I've said in my reviews the books have a cinematic feel. When writing the story did certain scenes appear as if on screen? These books and the overall story would make a great television show, have there been any offers?
EEK: I do think visually (the quick-n-easy test to determine this is get in an involved conversation with someone. If they look up when they think, they're most likely Visual-Spatial. If they look right-and-left and focused-center, they're probably Auditory-Sequential learners) and tend to play out my scenes in my head, like I'm the director of a play and I can freeze my cast at will and wander around the props and decide what to talk about.
You're the only interviewer to mention television, most people ask about movies. I believe VE is better suited for television, my natural storytelling style is pretty episodic to begin with.
RB: How was writing for a "media franchise," or what have you, for Lara Croft? How much leeway were you given?
EEK: Better than I expected it to be, but that may be due to the professionalism of the Del Rey team. Lara had certain behaviors (alcohol and drug use, explicit sex, nudity) that were verboten by Eidos, no ifs ands or buts. Other than that I had tremendous latitude and just a little bit of interference from the game people. They kept wanting her to kill more animals she came across, which struck me as a bit silly but I suppose it fits the game.
RB: Dragon Champion, publishing later this year kicks off your new series, The Age of Fire. On the surface this seems a bit of a departure from the Vampire Earth, in that it looks more so to fit the mold of Epic Fantasy. Aside from great storytelling and plausible characters, what can we expect when Dragon Champion hits the shelves?
EEK: You're making me blush. I was yours at "recommended the books to other people," by the way.
Yes, it's a departure. For one thing, the POV character has four legs, wings, and breathes fire, a substantial switch from David Valentine. I intentionally wrote the dragon fantasy to be an all-ages tale, like the very best of Disney or Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter…in other words a story adults and students with the reading ability to handle my Fogg index level could enjoy without my usual underclassman pulchritude. VE is very much for an adult audience, for the dragon fantasy I wanted to write something for the dinosaur-crazy, sword-and-sorcery reading eleven-year-old I was.
RB: Will Valentine's Rising be the final Vampire Earth novel? If not how many more do you plan on writing? Is the world something you would open up to other authors, for an anthology?
EEK: A lot of this is depends on sales. I wanted to do as many as C.S. Forester did of the Hornblower series, i.e. about a dozen. That's what I've thumbnailed out anyway. So far my publisher is along for the ride. A couple of bad books and that could change.
As to an anthology, I feel a bit presumptuous in saying anything about that. I don't feel that I've been Valkyried off to genre-Valhalla just yet, but I'm grateful to even be asked. If there are a bunch of writers clamoring to come over and play in my sandbox they're not emailing me. I'd be agreeable to the idea, as long as they didn't use any of my primary characters. Lovecraft is an idol of mine, and he pretty much made his Cthulhu Mythos open-source, to use today's terminology. My one qualm is that a lot of authors could probably do better than I.
RB: When time allows, what writers (in and out of FSF) do you find yourself drawn to reading?
EEK: My Web site lists a bunch so I don't want to repeat all of them. Lately I've been reading a lot of Tim Powers. I think I was underdeveloped as a reader when he started off, and I'd never picked him up until I met him at a con and found him charming and illuminating. His writing is that in spades. I've also recently discovered Dennis L. McKiernan, a wonderful and surprising fantasy writer. Laumer, Heinlein, H. Beam Piper are three of my favorites, along with Fred Saberhagen, Poul Andersen (a victim of serial-number-filing…the metaphysics of the Reapers were inspired by Call Me Joe), Richard Matheson, and Alan Dean Foster, who (whether he likes it or not) is something of literary a father-figure to me — I'm fondest of his oddball stuff like the shorts, Spellsinger books or the mountain-lions-on-ice he invented for Tran-Ky-Ky.
Pop fiction tastes include Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Alistar MacLean, Wilbur Smith, Ira Levin, pre-franchise Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming. I've mentioned Westerns — you can't go wrong with Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey. I'm an obsessive Orwell reader, though to tell the truth a couple of his earlier novels aren't worth opening. I read my battered old Complete Sherlock Holmes every couple of years. My triumvirate of all-time favorite novels areWatership Down, Gone With The Wind, and Sophie's Choice, probably in that order. Nabokov once defined a great novel as anything worth reading twice, so those three are exponentially great to me.
RB: Any advice for aspiring writers?
EEK: Writing is a trade, not a profession. You learn to write by writing, evaluating what you've written, and then improving in your next project by applying what you learned. As you grow in skill better and better jobs come along. Study the work of writers you admire. Perhaps early on you'll learn through imitation, as a sculptor or a painter does, before you develop your own style. There's nothing wrong with that.
Above all, write to please yourself. Make yourself excited, or scared, or weepy, or amused. You'll stay interested in your writing that way — and as a bonus, an editor might just have the same reaction.
RB: Have the quick release of your books and subsequent foreign rights afforded you the luxury of writing full-time?
EEK: Yes, I'm a full-time writer, for reasons you stated above. That and the fact that my wife's job has great health benefits.
RB: Any closing remarks or anything else you'd like to say to potential readers of your work?
EEK: I'm not much for perorations. I'll just say thank you for reading this interview. As to reading in general, I'll go with a quote:
"Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you"
– Richard De Bury
Discuss this interview in our forums: http://www.sffworld.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=7
Copyright 2005 Rob H. Bedford


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What started as a kit containing two pieces of wood and glue has transformed into a truck -- complete with a flatbed -- that needs a couple finishing touches such as a coat of paint and tires and wheels. David Lee will race his truck at the area's Cherokee District Scout-O-Rama in March and said he can't wait.
Eagle Scout Michael Hasty, 17, remembers his Pinewood Derby days as a Cub Scout. And as a Boy Scout, it was a trip to South Carolina, where the Scouts saw the USS Yorktown submarine, that sticks out in his mind as one of the best experiences in Boy Scouts. Most recently, Hasty was hired for staff at the Scout's summer camp where he will work with and teach younger Scouts.
For 93 years, the Boy Scouts of America has been providing memories for millions of boys across the nation. February is the anniversary month of the organization and several local Scouting programs in the area have been celebrating the occasion.
For example, members are encouraged to wear their uniforms to church and school during anniversary week which was Feb. 2-8. They're also encouraged to take part in activities that recognize the organization and members. Also in February, the Cub Scouts hold their Blue and Gold event where members are recognized for their accomplishments and receive badges.
"I learned so much through Scouts," Hasty said. "It's so much fun. I think I might have learned more from scouting than school because they relate so much to the real world. It gives you a reality check."
To obtain the highest rank of Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts must complete a service project that they have coordinated and successfully manage and complete. Hasty chose to repaint his former grade school's playground equipment, which was in Morehouse.
Cherokee District Executive Nick Roberts joined the Scouts as a Cub Scout in 1985 and worked his way up to Eagle Scout. He then went on to receive a degree in outdoor recreation from Southeast Missouri State University and has been currently working as a professional scout for the past two-and-a-half years.
"The one thing parents comment on most is the fun that their kids are having," Roberts said. "It's not a classroom setting. We have fun as well as meet our goals.
Membership since 1910 totals more than 110 million nationwide, according to data supplied by the Boy Scouts of America Council. Currently there are 1,600 members in the Cherokee District, which includes Scott, New Madrid, Mississippi, Pemiscot and Dunklin counties.
Roberts said membership is definitely on the rise for the area. "A lot of people are looking for a tradition they can share and continue with their kids," he said.
Vern Griffith is one of those parents. A former Scout, Griffith reacquainted with the Scouts when his son joined. He now serves as Scoutmaster for Troop 41 in Sikeston.
"I had a very positive experience in scouting as a youth," Griffith said. "Now, to a certain extent, I am reliving those days. My goal as Scoutmaster is if I can help some of these boys have the same experience I had, then I've succeeded."
Currently 400 adults volunteer for the Cherokee District, Roberts said. Volunteers make the program, and it wouldn't exist without volunteers, he added.
The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America--incorporated on Feb. 8, 1910, and chartered by Congress in 1916--is to provide an educational program for boys and young adults to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness.
Leadership development is probably the top priority in the Scouts, Roberts said. Community service is a large portion of what the Scouting program is about, Roberts said.
Last year the district donated 8,000 hours of service to the community, Roberts noted. Service ranged from scouting for food, cleaning up the city park, participating in the Adopt-A-Highway Program and conducting U.S. flag retirement ceremonies.
Of course Scouting isn't for everyone, Griffith noted. "We don't push boys to advance to the next level," he said. "If they want to, that's fine. If they don't, then that's OK, too."
Scouts learn to always be prepared, as the motto suggests, and treat others the way you want to be treated, Hasty noted. "You have so much fun -- but you learn at the same time," Hasty said. "And because it's so much fun, it sticks with you long after the experience is over."


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A bunch of prominent folks in the tech community gathered this past Friday in an edgy San Francisco studio space to talk about something pretty serious: Have entrepreneurs lost the will to innovate?
This handful of people comprised Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Canva chief evangeliest Guy Kawasaki, Nest chief executive Tony Fadell, Google X vice president Megan Smith, Samasource founder and chief executive Leila Janah, and Cisco vice president of emerging technologies Jim Grubb. They were brought together as part of the Virgin's "Virgin Disruptors" series of talks.
Along with a few moments of comedy (such as Guy Kawasaki describing the Maker Faire as "Burning Man for geeks") the conversation was overall a combination of genuine belief in and support of things like local entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship, and creating environments that foster these things, and a sense that this may just be a feel-good discussion that will remain just that — a discussion.
Although the conversation lasted over an hour and half, a few comments did stand out, such as Branson's thought that innovation can't really happen "if you don't have really good regulations for startups to enable them to do it," and Janah adding that "smartly designed regulation can actually help innovation."
On topics relating to social issues, they also shared some surprising viewpoints.
"Drugs should be treated as a health problem, not a criminal problem," said Branson. He also pointed out, "If you are wealthy and you have a problem and you go to court … you can pay the bail, and you're free," though that's not a given for people with little money at all.
"If we really believe that [everyone has an inherent worth] then so many of the institutions we've built out in the last centuries need to be completely demolished," said Janah, whose company connects people, especially women and youth, with tech-related jobs such as data entry that can help them attain a higher standard of living.
"I think of it as a responsibility. Once you've attained a certain level [of success], you have to go back and try to help," Fadell added.
While Smith passionately spoke about women multiple times throughout the conversation, she also reminded everyone, "The first computer scientists in America were six women."
But it was Grubb who delivered the most subtle yet striking point of the morning when he said, "As the entrepreneurs, we have the responsibility to do the right thing with … data." Ironically, he was sitting right next to Fadell, whose company Google acquired in January, raising a lot of questions as to whether Google would gain access to Nest's customer data.
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The 31-year-old singer announced via Twitter on Tuesday she's expecting her first child with husband Brandon Blackstock.
I'm pregnant!!! Brandon and I are so excited! Best early Christmas present ever :)— Kelly Clarkson (@kelly_clarkson) November 19, 2013
Kelly and Brandon eloped to Tennessee and exchanged vows on October 21.
Brandon, the son of Kelly's manager Narvel Blackstock, has two children from a previous marriage, Savannah, 11, and Seth, seven, according to Radar Online.
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She spoke openly during an interview for radio show Valentine In The Morning while promoting her new Christmas album Wrapped in Red.
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RANDOLPH – When Dr. Josh Plavin was in medical school, a federal program supporting primary care providers, the National Health Service Corps, helped pay for some of his education costs.
"I was a National Health Service Corps scholar," Dr. Plavin notes.
Upon graduation, the program required that he work two years at a National Health Service Corps approved site in a designated primary care shortage area. Dr. Plavin looked to rural Vermont.
"At the time there were no designated sites in Vermont with job openings," says Dr. Plavin, who worked with his employer of choice – Gifford Medical Center – to have the Chelsea Health Center designated as an approved site. The site was approved in part because neighboring Tunbridge was, and still is, defined as a primary care shortage area.
That was in 2001 and Dr. Plavin served the Chelsea area as both a pediatrician and internal medicine provider for the next seven years.
Today, Dr. Plavin serves as medical director of all of Gifford's primary care practice locations – in Berlin, Bethel, Chelsea, Randolph and Rochester. As such, he sees the benefit of the federal program from new eyes – that of a hospital administrator trying to staff primary care practices in rural areas.
"Medical school is so expensive that there are fewer and fewer doctors going into primary care because the simple math is it is not viable without loan repayment. It's certainly not viable in a rural area," says Dr. Plavin on what nationally is Corps Community Day, held today during National Primary Care Week.
Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Service Corps is a federal program that improves access to health care for people living in both urban and rural communities with a shortage of primary care providers. About one in five people in the United States (21 percent) lives in a primary care shortage area, according to the program, which means those individuals go without essential health services, or they have to travel long distances to see a primary health care provider.
The National Service Corps offers financial, professional and educational resources, including scholarships and loan repayment, to qualified providers who want to bring their skills where they are needed most – to underserved areas.
Currently, there are 10,000 service corps doctors, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, mental and behavioral health specialists and other health providers treating more than 9.5 million people, regardless of their ability to pay, at more than 14,000 National Health Service Corps-approved sites throughout the U.S. and its territories.
Much of the credit for providing primary care coverage to the Randolph region and well beyond can go to Gifford and its Medicine Division leaders, who work tirelessly to bring primary care providers to the area to ensure access to care.
Without some of Gifford's smaller clinics, such as the Rochester Health Center, Dr. Plavin has no doubt that some people would choose not to travel, or be unable to, and go without care.
And that would contribute to the state and nation's health epidemics, such as uncontrolled diabetes and heart disease, and the associated costs of treating late stage disease versus preventative measures.
"Access to primary care not only improves health but also decreases costs to society through hopefully preventing disease, as well as managing chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, and therefore preventing their long-term negative health outcomes while at the same time maintaining and improving overall function and wellness," Dr. Plavin says.
Still with all the effort Gifford staff puts in, the region has obstacles.
The state's rural setting and mountainous terrain often contribute to a feeling of a lack of care. "People in Vermont have a geographic barrier, whether it's true or perceived, that limits your access to care," Dr. Plavin says.
And the average age of a doctor at Gifford is in the 50s, Dr. Plavin says. That means most will be retired in 10 years, making attracting medical students to the primary care field – versus higher-paying specialty fields – and programs like the National Health Service Corps more essential than ever.


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Christian Pulisic in Borussia Dortmund cup squad due to Mario Gotze injury
Christian Pulisic has been named in the squad for Borussia Dortmund's first competitive match of the season after Mario Gotze was ruled out.
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Franck Ribery is a "ticking time bomb," according to Bundesliga referee Thorsten Kinhofer, after the Bayern Munich winger again showed an inappropriat
Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez ready for stellar season with Bayer Leverkusen
After having a full preseason with Bayer Leverkusen, Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez is ready to light up the Bundesliga, writes Cesar Hernandez.
Wolfsburg defender Dante set to leave Bundesliga for Ligue 1 club Nice
Wolfsburg defender Dante has confirmed he is on his way to French club Nice, once he passes a medical on Sunday.
Borussia Dortmund announce record €376m turnover for 2015-2016 season
Borussia Dortmund have announced a record turnover of €376 million for the 2015-2016 season and an after-tax profit of €29.4m, up from €5.5m.
Wolfsburg's Dante targeted by Nice, but Luiz Gustavo is not for sale
Wolfsburg have confirmed Nice's interest in Brazilian defender Dante, while ruling out an exit for midfielder Luiz Gustavo.


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DeltaWing Race Car Gets Nissan Power (Video)
Nissan Motor Co. has put its name on the DeltaWing, one of the most unusual racing cars to hit the track in the last few decades.
The triangle-shaped car, which has a narrow, pointed nose and wide, wing-like rear end, is scheduled to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours, a famous annual endurance race that takes place June this year on June 16 and 17.
The idea behind the car is that it will have half the weight and aerodynamic drag of a traditional Le Mans racing car and use about half the horsepower. That horsepower will come from a specially prepared Nissan 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
Sports-car racing team Highcroft Racing, a longtime competitor in the American Le Mans Series, has been developing the car with a group known as Project 56. The name reflects the car's 56th spot on the starting grid, which is reserved for an innovative car to compete outside some of the usual rules.
In addition to Highcroft and Nissan, Project 56 includes design firm DeltaWing Racing Cars LLC, and All American Racers, the company owned by 1967 Le Mans winner and 1960s Formula 1 star Dan Gurney.
Nissan said that while the car, now called the Nissan DeltaWing, will not be officially classified in the Le Mans race, the company believes it will provide a platform for it to show off its advanced high-performance technology, some of which is expected to find its way to road cars.
"As motor racing rulebooks have become tighter over time, racing cars look more and more similar and the technology used has had less and less relevance to road car development. Nissan DeltaWing aims to change that and we were an obvious choice to become part of the project," said Andy Palmer, Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
The Project 56 group says its car is a departure mainly because racers have traditionally increased performance by boosting horsepower and aerodynamic downforce. DeltaWing designers focused on cutting aerodynamic drag so teh car could race competitively on a modest 300 horsepower.


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By Kris Parfitt
– The Capitol Hill Times –
Ada Lovelace bent gender stereotypes in technology and science by being the first person to ever program a computer. Recognizing the potential of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1842, she wrote several programs for the early computer that arrived before electricity. Lovelace died of cancer at age 36 and is still acknowledged worldwide each October 16 with Ada Lovelace Day, which "aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire."
It's fitting that the building where the future location of Ada's Technical Books – a bookstore currently located in the Lovelace building on Broadway and Roy – honoring Ada's interests in all things left brain and geeky, was yarn bombed by another person who bends gender stereotypes in the field of textiles. Luke Haynes, a world-renowned artist who uses quilting, knitting and appliqué among many other mediums, was hired by Ada's to create a statement art installment. Ada's wanted to create something unique and memorable on the 425 East 15th Ave. site since the forthcoming bookstore will take some time to remodel the house it will eventually occupy.
Women in the 1800s weren't typically known to program computers and men in the modern world aren't commonly open about their love for quilting. But Luke isn't interested in stereotypes and bias, unless that bias is related to fabric.
"I can work with disparate pieces of fabric and create a cohesive final product that is greater than the sum of its parts," Haynes wrote on his web page. Fascinated by our nation's history of quilts, fabric and clothing, he said, "I am interested in the choices we make to express ourselves to our world."
"I did a project last year with Mad Homes and covered the interior of a house with clothes," Haynes told The Capitol Hill Times of his inspiration for the 15th Avenue project. "I found it as a great way to involve community and bring them together. I saw the old Horizon Books store as an opportunity to say "Hello Seattle and Capitol Hill! Your community is getting ready for some changes." The idea of using hand-knitted afghans symbolized the hands of the community holding up a façade everyone was concerned about."
I asked him about his role as a male in a traditional female industry and craft. Having grown up in alternative environments learning trades, crafts, construction and artistry he found himself pulled towards large space manipulations that had form and function. With art and architecture degrees, Haynes sees himself as an architect who makes quilts rather than a quilter who happens to be male.
"Sexuality bias comes up more often than any other judgment. I'd like to have a t-shirt that says 'Hi I'm Luke and I'm a heterosexual quilter,'" he laughed. Most of his time in fabric shops is spent explaining that he is not the husband/brother/boyfriend/son paying for his female companion's fabric purchase. He has discussed the preconceptions with gender bias history in a culture of domesticity with many people, he said, "But the more I do it, the more secure I am that I'm a quilter by profession."
He organized the 15th street yarn bombing via a Facebook event, inviting over 225 people. Many who did not attend donated yarn-full items to use for the event. One guest said she would bring her "Cuteasaurus Gram" who could add her quilting expertise, "say something old-timey and smile a lot."
The bombing occurred over this past weekend with friends contributing to the old house's knitted façade. Even the tree to the South was lovingly wrapped. The word HELLO is stitched along the front porch wall, and later, after the yarn tribe dispersed, Luke added the word WORLD.
Indeed, HELLO WORLD, Seattle and Capitol Hill. Welcome to many new and unknown expressions of change.
Find out more about Luke Hayne's art, http://lukehaynes.com/


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No matter how many reminders are given to the public, tragedies still occur every summer. We spoke to an animal expert who has one foolproof way of being sure your pet will never be left in a hot car.
The critical number is 60 degrees. When the temperatures are predicted to rise even one degree above 60 degrees -- leave your pet at home.
Experts said the only time an animal should be taken in a car while you're running errands is if the temperature outside is between 35 and 60 degrees.
Cracking your windows doesn't cut it since there's just not enough air flow.
As much as we love being around our pets, there's a time and place for everything.
If the temperature is 60 degrees or more, let Fido wait for you at home.


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The majesty of the mighty Mississippi River—America's most iconic waterway—has pulled at the hearts of those who have gazed upon it since long before our country's founding. Once a 25-million-acre floodplain forest, the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) was an extraordinary wetland system with abundant and diverse wildlife. But after years of drainage and clearing, only about 20 percent of the original forests remain, and the floodplain has been significantly altered.
Though widespread land conversion from forested floodplain to agriculture and other land uses has altered the MAV's wetland functions and values, the birds have adapted, and the region continues to be the continent's most important wintering habitat for mallards and wood ducks. The new MAV landscape also continues to attract a great diversity of waterfowl, including northern pintails, green-winged teal, and northern shovelers, as well as snow and white-fronted geese. Louisiana's internationally known Catahoula Lake winters approximately 15 percent of North America's canvasbacks.
A Legacy of Permanent Protection
For decades, Ducks Unlimited has used conservation easements to protect important waterfowl habitat from high-density development across the nation. These easements provide permanent landscape protection while allowing landowners to retain and enjoy their lands. In the MAV, privately owned habitats often include some of the last remaining forested wetland complexes in the region, making easements a key part of our conservation strategy.
Conservation easements also serve double duty by providing permanent habitat protection and serving as an asset when Ducks Unlimited seeks public funding. The monetary value of the easements provides DU with an important non-federal match when applying for North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) grants or other state and federal funding programs.
To address the losses in the MAV, Ducks Unlimited's America's River Initiative specifically targets areas where public and private lands managed for waterfowl provide crucial migration and wintering habitat for millions of birds traveling the Mississippi Flyway. This region boasts some of the best and most storied waterfowl hunting in the country, and its forested wetlands also have some of the highest densities of nesting wood ducks in North America. There is much here to cherish and enjoy, but also much that could be lost without your support of DU's important conservation efforts in this region.
Ducks Unlimited is seeking to raise $47.7 million in public and philanthropic funds to achieve our conservation goals in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, including more than $18 million from generous philanthropic leaders like you. Funding derived from the America's River Initiative enables Ducks Unlimited to conduct important science, public policy, and outreach efforts, as well as conserving the habitats important to waterfowl that migrate and winter in the valley. DU's research and evaluation efforts are the foundation upon which our direct conservation
programs and our policy and outreach work are based.
Conservation work under the America's River Initiative will focus on the restoration and enhancement of key public lands with state and federal partners, as well as the long-term protection of high-quality waterfowl habitat (especially forested wetlands) on private lands that contribute toward landscape goals. A key focus will be working with rice producers and the rice industry to develop a sustainable agricultural program that benefits wintering waterfowl.
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candy on any occasion or holiday.
Almond Roca Candy - Almond Toffee Recipe
This is my youngest daughter's favorite candy recipe to make at Christmas time. Her father–in-law also has this recipe down to a science, cooking the toffee to a
deep dark brown color without burning. Not many ingredients are needed for this recipe - you just need to make sure you cook the toffee to the right
temperature on the candy thermometer.
Graham Cracker Toffee
This candy is so easy to make and taste so good! An excellent recipe to make with your children.
When you serve this toffee, your family and guests will not believe that you used ordinary graham crackers in the recipe.
Apple and Apricot Candy (Aplets & Cotlets)
Aplets and Cotlets are a delicious Northwest candy that is made with gelatin, walnuts, and apples. Developed by two Armenian
men, Armen Tertsgian and Mark Balaban, who bought an apple farm (called Liberty Orchards) in the small town of Cashmere in eastern Washington state.
Avocado-Chocolate Truffles
Yes, you read it right! This is a recipe for Avocado Truffles. You absolutely won't believe how delicious these truffles
are until you have tried this very easy-to-make recipe. But, beware - these truffles are very rich!
Candied Orange Rind
These delicious candied orange rinds will be a welcome addition to any holiday party menu, tree trimming, or even wrapped to be given as a gift.
Chocolate Candy Turtles
These could be considered either a candy or a cookie. Whatever they are called, they are called "delicious!
Chocolate Clay Roses
These delightful chocolate roses can be used as edible decorations for a cake or to create to basket of blooms.
This edible clay can be also used as a modeling clay for making other figurines and objects. The soft pliability makes it easy to work with.
These chocolate roses are so easy to make that even children enjoy making them.
Chocolate-Covered Grape Truffles
You thought Chocolate Dipped Strawberries were great, now you must try these chocolate-covered grape truffles.
These will definitely make a speculator finish for any dinner party.
Chocolate Fruit and Nut Easter Egg Candy
Why spend money on stale Easter candy when you can very easily make your own? Surprise your family and friends with this delicious candy.
These Easter candies are so delicious and so rich! You could substitute any candied fruit of your choice for the cherries. I just like the cherries!
Chocolate Fudge - Can't Fail 5-Minute Chocolate Fudge
This very easy-to-make and delicious chocolate fudge recipe is originally
from the Nestle Carnation Evaporated Milk Company. The recipe seems to
have appeared in the 1950s. This recipe has become very popular and famous with
many generations of families! You'll love this very rich and delicious fudge.
Chocolate Mint Truffles
These chocolate mint truffles are awesome and will definitely get "oohs" and "ahhs" from your guests!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
These peanut butter balls are so good that they literally melt in
your mouth - it is hard to stop eating them! They taste like Reeses'
Peanut Butter Cups candy. Very easy to make. Especially great during the Christmas holiday.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (no bake)
These peanut butter bars taste just like Reeses' peanut butter cups. So good and so easy!
Chocolate Truffles
This chocolate truffle recipe can match even the priciest truffles you can find to buy.
Chocolate Truffle Bars
As you peruse this recipe, this thought may occur:
"Oh my! This must be terribly rich and full of calories." Well, you're exactly
right - but indulge yourself anyway with one of these divinely decadent
confections. This chocolate bar is quite easy to make. the base is made in one
saucepan and the truffle topping in one bowl.
Cognac Laced Truffles (low fat, low calorie)
Yes, you can have your chocolate and diet too! Just watch how many truffles your eat.
Cognac Truffles
This is a perfect recipe for the home cook. These
truffles can easily be made in the home kitchen, but look and taste as though
they were produced by the finest chocolatier.
Cranberry-Walnut White Fudge
A very unusual fudge recipe that uses prepared frosting that you
buy. This white fudge is very easy-to-make and very delicious. You'll love this very rich and delicious fudge.
Crystallized/Candied Edible FlowersCrystallized/Candied flowers make beautiful decorations for desserts and can last up to one year.
Not only do they taste amazing, but they add an elegant, romantic, and delicious touch to virtually
every dessert. This job takes a little patience, but the rewards are well worth it!
Deep-Fried Chocolate Truffles
This is a very impressive dessert to end a meal. It is very easy to make as most of the recipe can be made ahead of time.
Also know as Divinity Fudge, White Divinity Fudge, Seafoam Candy, and Meringue Candy. This snowy
white divinity simply melts in your mouth. Divinity is not hard to make but it does take a little time and patience.
Fleur de sel Caramels
The contrast between the sweet and salty is so wonderful in this candy.
Honeycomb Toffee - Sponge Candy
This delicious candy is also known by various names around the world,
such as Hokey pokey, puff candy, cinder toffee, sponge toffee or candy, molasses puffs, fairy
candy, and seafoam. This candy is basically a hard candy (toffee or taffy) with boiled sugar and
corn syrup. After being taken off the heat, some baking soda and vinegar
are added to foam it up as it cools which makes the interior look like a
sponge. These candies are very addictive!
Honey Spice Truffles
Recipe by Paul Lemieux, pastry chef at Lucere Restaurant in the Riverplace hotel in
Portland, Oregon. Paul and his wife, Michelle, make the most luxurious chocolate
truffles ever, using innovative flavors, such as Honey Spice.
Lemon Gum Drops
I have always loved gumdrops. Now that I have
tested and developed this wonderful gumdrop recipe, I will never have to
purchase them again. You can make different flavors of gum drops by using
different fruit juice and food coloring. Use you imagination and be creative!
Lime Gum Drops
This recipe was shared with me be Jane Musick. Jane says, "I made these lime gum drops before Christmas and I was thrilled with the result.
I was delighted with the flavor and the texture of the gum drops. Enjoy!"
Honey Spice Truffles
Recipe by Paul Lemieux, pastry chef at Lucere Restaurant in the Riverplace hotel in
Portland, Oregon. Paul and his wife, Michelle, make the most luxurious chocolate
truffles ever, using innovative flavors, such as Honey Spice.
Lemon Gum Drops
I have always loved gumdrops. Now that I have
tested and developed this wonderful gumdrop recipe, I will never have to
purchase them again. You can make different flavors of gum drops by using
different fruit juice and food coloring. Use you imagination and be creative!
Lime Gum Drops
This recipe was shared with me be Jane Musick. Jane says, "I made these lime gum drops before Christmas and I was thrilled with the result.
I was delighted with the flavor and the texture of the gum drops. Enjoy!"
Maple Nut Fudge
You'll love this very rich and delicious fudge. Canadians have known the secret of how wonderful maple fudge tastes for a long time, now everyone can experience it!
I adapted this recipe from several different recipes that I found on
the internet. If you've never had fresh homemade marshmallows,
here's your chance. These marshmallows are so delicious and decadent
that you'll never want store purchased ones again!
Lavender Marshmallows
This recipe has been adapted from Chef Derek Barnes of
Derek's Culinary Casual restaurant, Sarasota, Florida.
Marshmallow Squisharoos
Here is a fun marshmallow treat that is easy to make with your children. This recipe comes from the Magic of JELL-O Cookbook.
So easy to make - just place some JELL-O mix in a plastic baggie, add the marshmallows, and shake away! The flavors remind me of eating a marshmallow peep.
We made this with my 5-year old grandson and it was easy for him to assemble. Check out our video with my grandson making this marshmallow treat.
Marshmallow Fluff/Cream
This is the best recipe that I have ever found to substitute for the store-bought
marshmallow fluff. It is very easy to make and so delicious. Use this homemade
marshmallow fluff/cream in any recipe that calls for marshmallow fluff.
Marshmallow Peeps
This sugar, soft, chewy treat nesting in the
Easter basket is hard to beat when it is homemade. Did you know
that Americans devour more than 700 million Peeps per year. Peeps have been
around since 1953, when they were hand-squeezed using a pastry bag, a
process that took 27 hours to "hatch" each Peep.
Mashed Potato Candy
Since this candy is a very unique and unusual
recipe, I thought everyone would enjoy seeing them and perhaps making them.
Mashed Potato Fudge
They taste kind of like Almond Joy (Mounds Bar) candy bars, but without the almonds.
Orange Blossom Infused Chocolate TrufflesRecipe by Ellen Easton, an afternoon tea authority.
Check out all of Ellen Easton's
Tea Travels articles and recipes.
Oreo Truffle Balls
This candy is so easy to make and so good!
Peanut Brittle
This wonderful Brown Sugar Peanut Brittle recipe and photos are courtesy of Cynthia
Detterick-Pineda of Andrews, TX. This recipe reminds me of my
"younger" days when my mother always made these. So good!
Pecan Chocolate Toffee - Saltine Toffee
This is an excellent candy. No one will ever know that saltine crackers are the base until they ask for the recipe - and they will! This toffee is delicious!
Pecan Pralines
Pralines are one of the favorite sweets of the
South, particularly Louisiana and Texas. Anyone who has ever visited New Orleans
remember the wonderful pralines that are for sale all over the city. This is a
very easy candy to prepare!
Peppermint Bark CandyThis Peppermint Bark is totally delicious and addicting. In fact it is as good, or even better, than the famous Williams Sonoma Peppermint Bark.
Give it a try!
Peppermint Patties - Homemade Peppermint Patty
I absolutely love Peppermint Patties! When I want some candy, I always look for
the Peppermint Patties in the stores. Now I can make my own Peppermint Patties. They are
incredibly delicious and refreshing! They also definitely make a wonderful
Christmas treat for your family and friends.
Popcorn Balls
These old-time popcorn balls are great anytime, but they're especially fun to enjoy at
Halloween or Christmas time. When I was a young girl (many years ago), my
mother, along with my brothers and I, made these wonderful popcorn balls for
Halloween every year to give out to the neighborhood kids. I continued this
tradition with my children and their friends. That ended, of course, when the tainted candy scare started.
Pumpkin-Cream Cheese Truffles
They are a very unusual truffle that is both delicious and pretty! Wouldn't this candy make a delicious Halloween and/or Thanksgiving treat?
This American classic is everyone's favorite childhood treat! S'mores are thought to have gotten their name from frequent
requests for "some more" whenever they were made. There is no "right" way to make a S'more.
Anyway you like it, is the right way. This recipe is one that has been passed down through years of family and scout camps.
Sugar-Free Chocolate Fudge
Are you diabetic and need a chocolate fix? Yes, you can have your chocolate and stay on your diet! These Sugar-Free Chocolate Squares are just what you
need! My husband, who is not diabetic, also really enjoys them.
Vanilla Nut Easter Egg Candy
Creamy milk chocolate covers these Easter eggs with a soft walnut nougat center. The nougat is a basic divinity recipe made extra rich with the addition of white chocolate.
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Government slammed as house prices jump 26% in London
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Nationwide saves troubled Dunfermline Building Society
House prices rose an amazing 26% in London over the past year, according to the latest figures from Nationwide.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said: "Annual house price growth accelerated to 26% in London, far outpacing the rest of country, and the highest growth rate since Q3 1987. Prices in the capital are now 30% above their 2007 peak, with the price of a typical London property now in excess of £400,000."
Pressure group Generation Rent, reacting to the Nationwide figures and a Newsnight report that showed an expected 4% dip in building starts 2014-15, accused ministers of "dumbly watching on" and said it was time to "start kissing our global city status goodbye".
Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, said: "We thought the government was finally getting it, but they have abjectly failed to do the one thing that would get the economy back on track and build more houses. By dumbly watching on as the building rate slides, ministers are complicit in forcing tens of thousands more families into a lifetime of working for their landlord…It will no longer be possible to attract young workers to the capital and hold on to talented people who will look elsewhere for a cheaper standard of living. We should start kissing our global city status goodbye."
Tom Copley, London Assembly Labour group spokesperson on housing, said: "With house price inflation in London continuing to dwarfing price rises for the rest of the country, this is further evidence that the capital's housing bubble continues to grow. The disparity between London and the rest of England is now the widest it's ever been, and shows no sign of narrowing…Boris Johnson has utterly failed Londoners on housing over the past six years of his Mayoralty. A key driver for the soaring property market is the fact that he is currently only building a third of the 62,000 new homes we need in London each year to keep pace with our growing city."
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