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wiwip replied to wiwip's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingI'd never though about the "visible object". I will see for it thanks.
wiwip posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingHi everyone, Some time ago, I started to develop a game on android with andengine. That is w Working well. I am just working to look at some feedback at my design yet. Here is what I am having right now. I could also put some code if you want. Briefly, this is a survival with some rts/rpg system. If you have any questions, don't hesitate. [img]http://s15.postimage.org/8mn0vumaj/game.png[/img]
wiwip replied to wiwip's topic in Writing for GamesI'd first start by saying thank you. Second, StillWorkingOnIt the story is nice. Classic but effective. It can easily be implemented to my game. Also, Wolfgang01, the story is very original and different from what I expected, but I like it. As of now, I would use first story and implementing things from the second. Still, I won't refuse others ideas Thank you very much.
wiwip posted a topic in Writing for GamesHi everyone, As stated in the title, I need a story for a game. Basically, it is a normal zombie survival game. It is bases on squad management and on defending yourself correctly. So, I need a small draft - 100 to 500 words - of what could have happened to that world. And why is it like that ? I need a name for the squad and the leaders of that squad. I would also need some "event" of any type that could happend to the squad. And at last, I need a name for the game. I still have some idea like "Last Resort". The thing is that I don't really know if a game already have that name. But the most important part is that I'm frenchman so I don't exactly know how it would sound to someone hearing it in english. If someone could come to me with a nice idea and something well written, I will make sure that he gets dome credits in the final form of the game. If you need any more details, just ask. Thank you, have a great day (or night) Wiwip
wiwip replied to wiwip's topic in Game Design and Theory[quote name='Stormynature' timestamp='1340177959' post='4950869'] Not trying to offend you but it is difficult to obtain answers on a variety of areas if you stick everything into one post. It is far better to divide your one large post into several smaller posts and place them in the relevant forums. Mainly because the people with appropriate skills primarily pay attention to the area of their skills and less so outside of there. Despite this I like what you have done so far and applaud the fact that you are actually producing content.[/quote] Personally not offended at all. I am even thanking you for your comments. I did some changes to my post, added more feedback needed and went to visual art section asking for help. Thank you.
wiwip replied to wiwip's topic in Game Design and TheoryThank you, I am presently at job. I will make changes tonight. I basically need advices on wich kind od grwphics you would seek in a game like that. your comments have been taken. Thank you.
wiwip posted a topic in Game Design and TheoryHi everyone, [b]About me[/b] I am Louis-Philipe. I am an computer engineering student currently. Still 2 years to go ... So, I have learned - in order - HTML, Visual Basic 6, C# (only the basics), python with pygame, C and currently getting more comfortable with Java. For most of it, I am self learning but I still got some university courses. The last game I did was a project at school and it was pretty decent. Short but decent. So, I am 20. I like programmations and game making. I'd like to get better. By the way, I've read the tips "don't post in the first hours of the creating of the account". The things is that I know that site for a while so I know how it is. PS I am a french guy. If I am doing some error in english, I won't be offended if you correct me. [b]About the game itself[/b] First, I have already started a little that project. He is currently under development. I want that game to be like a squad survival game. I want to add it some upgradable portion for the guys, I would have a level system with persistent upgrades. No multiplayer part, that I'm pretty sure. Most important, I am developping that game to work on android devices with andengine engine. [url="http://andengine.org"]andengine.org[/url] [b]About where I am[/b][list] [*]Currently, the graphics portion have to be redone since I am using free stuff from the internet. The soldiers are self made but I think they are way too simple. Are they ? [*]The sound part is currently not done at all. [*]The allied soldiers part is currently most done. Modifications will have to be done further, but I am satisfied for now. [*]The enemy part is currently done, but I'd like to add more enemy in the future. [*]The wavesystem is basically done and I will improve it a lot in the future. [*]The upgrade system is not done at all [*]The saving system is not done at all, same for the loading system [*]Mainmenu is roughly done currently [/list][b]Current work[/b] I plan actually to finish the game systems and to improve graphics. I will follow it by the upgrade system and a save/load system I will then add more level to play with. [b]Feedback[/b] So, what I need for feedback is about the general idea of the game.Personally, what would you think would be good to have here ?I also need comments about what you see in the picture overall so I can improve.You can alsocomment me on the unit/building/rts/rpg part of the game.Finally, if you would see a game that type on android market by example, would you try it ? [b]Conclusion[/b] I don't plan on having finished that game soon. I am planing to continue to put work on it. If anyone is interested in trying the game - I still in really early stage of developpment - I can maybe pass you the APK or mostly upload it to the androidmarket. Thank you to everyone. [img]http://s15.postimage.org/dh3108kyj/image.png[/img] Thank you everyone.


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Today was our first departure from our new starting location at Legg Lake, Whittier Narrows.
Despite minor logistical set backs, the Bike Train managed to ride on. Nine riders took to the pavement and made their way up to the Santa Fe Dam. Many thanks to the new comers and loyal friends who joined us today. We look forward to situating ourselves at Legg Lake as we continue to host these bike rides.
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Ladies, do you believe it? Men do as much at home as you
Ladies, they say we can't expect to have it both ways.
For the longest time, so many of us have bitterly complained (or seethed in silence), convinced that the men in our lives get away with murder. We may have truly believed that men turn a blind eye as we juggle the demands of work, children and housework, with nary a concern that we may be overwhelmed and exhausted.
So many working women have been convinced that they leave their paid workday to assume what researcher "Arlie Hochschild" has called the second shift to take on the lion's share of the responsibilities at home. While they may acknowledge that the men in their lives face enormous pressures at the workplace, especially in these challenging times, there has been a widespread assumption that even men who attempt to be helpful in the home, are largely let off the hook.
Not so, according to a recent Time Magazine cover story by Ruth Konigsberg, entitled "The Chore Wars." Konigsberg, a working mother, expected to bolster her own belief that the two sexes carry drastically different, unequal workloads. Like the rest of us, she was quite surprised when the research simply did not back up her original premise.
In fact, the data released by the U.S. bureau of Labor Statistics concluded the following: In 2010, men and women who were married, childless and working full time (defined as more than 35 hours a week) had combined daily totals of paid and unpaid work (duties at home) that wwere almost exactly the same.
For those who had children under the age of 18, women employed full time did jjust twenty minutes more of combined ppaid and unpaid work than men did, the smallest difference ever reported. And although the report concluded that men were not clocking as many hours helping at home, comparatively women were not clocking as many hours at the office.
Konigsberg further reported that working fathers were the ones who were experiencing the most pressure as they tried to manage work responsibilities, in addition to carrying their fair share at home. Therefore: the widespread belief that working mothers have it worse — a belief that engenders an enormous amount of conflict between spouses — is simply not the openand shut case it once was.
Now, I predict a resounding chorus of dispute! Most of the women I know will shout, "The studies are wrong!g! My partner doesn't do his share!" Well, it certainly may seem that way, but could thereere be some merit to the study?
Ladies, please don't be angrygry that I've brought these findings to thee table. And men, please don't use this dataata as ammua ammunition to retaliate or prove a point! Let's be clear that these statistics do nothing to address the very real frustrationsions of both sexes. Nor, do thesese studies make recommendations - that could help to ease the burdens.
So where is the disconnect? Traditionally, our society has delineated specificc gender roles that the sexes have been struggling vigorously too change. Despite substantive shifts broughtought about by feminism, many women still consider themselves to be the "CEO's of the domestic domain." Men are most often the primary wage earners, and by necessity and/ or choice have focused on their careers, and have not been able to participate fully in the childcare and housework.
I don't doubt for a moment the contention that men today are carrying a pretty hefty load. Most of the fathers I meet seriously assume the importance of their parenting responsibilities and understand the significant role they play in the emotional development of their children.
However, in these skittish times, many dads (especially, the primary breadwinners) are feeling unparalleled pressures and insecurities at work. They often worry that employers and colleagues will penalize them if they don't put in long hours. They often lament that no matter how hard they try to help out and please their wives, it never seems enough! It would be a tremendous relief for them if they goes on the fritz. So, they don't feel like their workday ever ends, or that they are ever able to truly relax. Even while they're in the middle of their "so-called down time" (out to lunch with their friends or having a manicure), their brains are often working over-time, mentally calculating the weekly schedule, or whether they have to stop at Publix to pick up lettuce for tonight's salad.
They are envious of their husband's ability to enjoy down time (working out or watching a sports game), seemingly without a care in the world. They are often frustrated because it doesn't seem as if he makes a genuine effort to be of help. And, it is human nature to notice what he isn't doing, not what he does.
If both sides could only discard our scorecards, and sidestep the notion we are being pitted against each other, we might be able to take steps to soften the conflict. Trying to put ourselves in our partners shoes for a day, may gigive us an appreciation for the scope of their sstruggles. Giving each other clear feedback on how we can be of help contributes to the spirit of collaboration. ration. And of coucourse, supporting each other and acknowledgingacknowle well-intended efforts is critically important.im ¦
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Re: st: out-of-sample prediction does not work after -regress- with lags
Mirko <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: out-of-sample prediction does not work after -regress- with lags
Wed, 4 May 2011 15:50:29 +0100
Thank you Maarten for your reply.
I am not interested in the missing values at the beginng of the
sample, clearly they are missing because there is not enough
information. Instead, I would like to undestand why -predict- perfoms
the out-of-sample forecast for one data point at the end of the series
(the observations created with -tsappend-) only and not for the whole
sample when lags are presents. The problem does not occure, for
instance, when the regressor is a time trend. What am I missing here?
On 4 May 2011 12:41, maarten buis <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Mirko wrote:
>> I cannot get out-of-sample forecasting after a regression with lags:
>> According to the manual, "-predict- can be used to make in-sample or
>> out-of-sample predictions:
>> 6. predict calculates the requested statistic for all possible
>> observations, whether they were used in fitting the model or not."
>> However from the example above only one out of sample data is predicted.
> To do out of sample predictions Stata must know the values of all
> explanatory variables. So, in order to predict the outcome Stata needs
> to know all the lagged values. If these are missing than what should it
> predict? Prediction is just filling in an equation, if one of the elements
> is missing than the result will be missing.
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Inspiration - stitching!
7 comments:
- Layers and Layers said...
that's because you could put this on and look totally chic and nobody would bat an eye. I would put it on and look like a total dork ... people batting eyes all day!!! hahaha Let's face it, you have to have a certain "je na se qua" for this kinda thing AND honey whatever that is ... You've got it!
- February 2, 2011 at 7:41 AM
- Pinecone said...
I love them...the colors are really amazing.
I think my 3 girls would look fab in these!!
- February 2, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- tori lynn dickson said...
i tend to be sort of skeptical when it comes to felt hair pieces. but these, i love, adore, want, need.
- February 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- lori (aka: marzi) said...
i've had these headpieces bookmarked for quite some time....trying to convince myself that i'd be brave enough to wear one if i bought it. so brilliant!
- February 2, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Words and Eggs said...
Super cute! My hair wants one!
- February 2, 2011 at 3:56 PM
- marci said...
These are beautiful! :)
- February 16, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Jeanette said...
Re Layers and Layers:
"je ne SAIS quoi" ..... that might be your problem..
- February 25, 2011 at 6:45 AM


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Lining a Wood Stove Question- Here is an interesting question about using a Wood Stove that came into Ask the Chimney Sweep With a fireplace insert, would it be practical to start by just dropping in a new metal flue liner, to TRY to stop the smoke from coming back into the room? (It's an old home, therefore I am guessing the mortar MUST be getting weak by now, and it will … [Read more...]
Why a Chimney Cap Might Save Your Chimney's Life
Here is another great article, about the need for installing a chimney cap! A bigs thank you goes out to Doug Hetsch and his entire team over at " All American Chimney " in beautiful Louisville KY. After reading this article, if you have time jump over to our interview with Doug Hetsch on our HomeContractors HQ-- podcast Episode 25 … [Read more...]
You Ask, We Answer! Reface Fireplace
Email questions to Ask The Chimney Sweep.com Hello, Our chimney is 27" wide by 25" high by 23" deep. The chimney is in a relatively new home ( 4 years ). We have a special air system installed by the builder. There is a vent under the grate that we keep open when operating the fire. The fireplace working really, really well and we use it a lot. If we could make one wish, it … [Read more...]
Caring for Prefabs
The fireplace has certainly changed since its original design so long ago. Improvements have been made since the primitive use of fire containing devices, one of the most recent of which being the factory built or prefabricated fireplace unit. A prefabricated unit, or prefab, is made of metal instead of brick or other masonry materials. A prefab uses insulation, pipes which are … [Read more...]
of … Unvented Gas Logs
Over the past few years, there has been some commotion in the industry regarding non-vented gas logs. (BEING UPDATED) … [Read more...]
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Ultra-Violet Paint
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
edit The General Principles
Everyone knows about Ultra-Violet light, it is those purple lights that make white things glow, well those things glow for a reason, because in your washing powder, manufacturers put a special chemical which makes your whites, whiter, but it also glows with ultra violet light. (Good people of Uncyclopedia, please accept my humblest apologies for writing this tiny bit of fact.)
In 1973 it was suggested by British scientists that if you cannot see ultra-violet light, then why not create a paint that only shows up under ultra-violet light (like the stuff in the washing powder), that way anything painted with this ultra-violet paint would be rendered invisible, and so on that day they set out to create this paint, and finally succeeded in 1974, (science worked fast in the old days) and the first invisibility paint was created.
edit UV Paint and The Military
In January 1975 the military declared it top secret, and the only 23,465,900 cans of ultra violet paint were stored in a warehouse in Leeds. At first they tried painting their fighter jets with this paint, this seemed a good idea until they lost 50 US designed MIG planes somewhere on an airstrip and couldn't find them for 3 weeks.
In 1979 they tried to paint their ships with the UV paint, but again it was worthless, because though no-one could actually see the ships, the effects they were having on the water was obvious.
By 1987 they were running low on UV paint, they were down to 15 cans (people kept spilling UV paint over the cans and they were never found again)
In 1992 the military finally conceded that there was no way that they could use the UV paint for military purposes and they released it (or what was left of it: 2 cans and 12 UV painted breeze blocks) to the public.
edit A further list of failed Military applications
Invisible Guns (Lost)
Invisible Tanks (Crashed)
Invisible Walls (The tanks crashed into them)
Invisible Cars (Lost)
Invisible Keys (Lost)
Invisible Doors (Defeated the point of having doors in the first place)
Invisible Parachutes (People couldn't tell if they were wearing one or not, causing several deaths)
Invisible Computers (Lost)
Invisible Sunglasses (Didn't block the sunlight - pointless)
Invisible Soldiers (The eyes still showed, so they went around with closed eyes and kept walking into things. The teeth also showed, which was okay until a seargent in a squad dubbed "the Cheshire Cats" made a joke about the French. The entire squad grinned and were gunned down by David Schwimmer.)
Invisible Chairs This actually worked, because it became a very good version of musical chairs, (you never knew if you had a chair or not until you fell on your ass.)
Invisible Missiles (They could never tell if they had been stolen, or if they were still there)
Invisible Lifts (Couldn't tell if they were at your floor or if you were about to fall 16 floors to your certain death)
Invisible Bullets (Ok until 300 soldiers were killed because they were issued with empty guns)
Invisible Files (To hide top secret documents, guess what….. they couldn't read them)
edit Commercial and Industrial Uses UV Paint
Wonderful new designs sprang up in London (they had refused to allow UV paint to be used abroad) Office blocks were made with invisible floors, Skyscrapers painted the bottom floors with UV paint, making it look as if it was simply hanging in the air, and Sherie Blair could go out in public without anyone wincing. These were glorious times; even windows were painted with UV paint, so that they would look as if they weren't even there.
The clothing industry decided once and for all to destroy the porn industry by finnally introducing INVISIBLE CLOTHING!!! suddenly all attractive women at the beach were wearing UV treated bikinis much to the delight of men of all ages, and the best part about it, is that it breached NO LAWS!! (since they were still wearing clothes that covered all parts of their body, you just couldn't see them.)
In the Lake District, to preserve wonderful views, they made the roads and houses invisible, so that the view remained the same. But dark clouds were brewing, evil things were coming, and UV paint was about to get lethal.
edit The UV Wars
Gangs suddenly got a hold on some UV paint and painted all manors of weapons with it, so they could even carry them in their hands and no one would know. Vandals painted roadblocks and bridges with UV paint, so that when cars started going the next morning, they were crashing into invisible barriers and avoiding all the bridges (thinking they were gone) then it got bad. France, having managed to perfect the paint (the French being experts at anything camp, like interior decorating, i.e. paint) came to Britain in invisible tanks, with invisible soldiers holding invisible guns, and all the other things that the British military gave up on, and SERIOUSLY WOOPED OUR ASSES!!!
Britain had never been as bad, French police roamed every street (invisible, so no one could avoid the French law) people were forced to eat croissants and own poodles with ridiculous hair styles, and drive hybrid cars and even……. Wear sock suspenders on pain of death.
Soon however people began to rise up against them (from the moment they took over in fact) and used the already invisible Sherie Blair to strike back at the French. Naturally the entire French army (being camper than a camper van) ran away from this new threat, and we once again wore normal socks, ate human food, and breathed unscented air.
edit The eventual fate of the UV paint project
Now UV paint is all but gone, and the only use is by inconsiderate vandals who spray paint your car with it so you can't find it in the morning, and the great invisible buildings were torn down, and as the word settled down again, the millennium happened, and some stupid bugger spilled the last of the UV paint over all of the Millennium Dome profits, making it seem that it was a failure, oh well…… oh well, at least we still have infra-red paint.
edit Infra-Red Paint
This paint was made, so that instead of making something invisible, it would just become really hot. So at first the military tried it out, yes, they failed a lot, but eventually managed to make winter survival suits, heated toilet seats and portable barbecues. Later it expanded into commerce and made a HUGE range of products, such as central heating, in cars, a substitute for radiators and an ingenious way to overheat you engine when you don't want to go to work, so at least one ridiculous idea survived.


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The Lakers lost one and then won one Sunday night.
Andrew Bynum got kicked out of the game in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter for woofing about a call.
The Lakers then booted the New York Knicks from Staples Center without him, 109-87, for their fourth consecutive victory.
Even after Bynum's early exit, the Lakers were too big, too strong and too determined for the smallish Knicks, rejuvenated though they might be this season.
Pau Gasol, Bynum's fellow 7-footer, more than took up the slack.
Gasol was one of three Lakers to record a double-double in their sixth victory in their past seven games, scoring 20 points and grabbing 14 rebounds. Kobe Bryant had 27 points and 10 rebounds and Lamar Odom had 13 points and 18 rebounds.
The Lakers outrebounded the Knicks 61-42 and limited them to 36 percent shooting (31 of 86). The Lakers shot 41.8 percent (38 of 91) and also made 80.6 percent of their free throws (25 of 31) in a rough-and-tumble game.
What's more, the Lakers limited Amare Stoudemire to 23 points on 7-for-24 shooting plus 10 rebounds and four assists. Stoudemire was 2-for-12 at one point in the third quarter, with the Lakers pulling away from the Knicks slowly but certainly.
New York went into the game averaging 108.1 points, tops in the NBA. The Lakers tossed a wet blanket over them.
"I thought we had a relatively good plan," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. "We played the defense we wanted to play on (Stoudemire). I thought he missed shots (he normally makes). He has been hitting those shots in the games I've seen."
The more the Lakers went inside, the more the Knicks hacked and slashed at them. Sometimes the whistle sounded, sometimes it didn't, which angered the Lakers and made what happened at the start of the fourth quarter so upsetting for Bynum.
Stoudemire drove against him, pulling up for a short jumper to the left of the paint. Bynum rose and got his hand on the ball, and a little too much of Stoudemire, according to referee Leon Wood, who was stationed nearby.
Wood whistled Bynum for one technical and then another when Bynum persisted in questioning the one-time NBA player, drawing howls of outrage from many in the sellout crowd of 18,997. Some chanted profanely as Bynum trudged from the court.
"Are you serious?" Bynum said he asked Wood. "I was surprised. He's a grown man. I don't know if I showed him up or not. I asked him a question and he wouldn't answer. He put his head down like a bad lab or something."
Jackson, not wishing to draw a fine from the league, declined comment.
"It's just irritating," he said.
Said Bryant: "It was just silly."
Referees have been instructed this season to crack down on overt displays of emotion when calls don't go a player's way. Bynum's response fit into that category, and accounted for two of four technicals called against the Lakers.
Artest and Bryant had the others.
The bottom line was the Lakers were forced to play the game's final 11 minutes, 26 seconds without Bynum, who scored 18 points on 8-for-15 shooting and added seven rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots in 25 minutes.
Until his second career ejection, Bynum was bound for another in a string of ever-improving games since his return to the starting lineup for the Lakers' victory Dec. 29 over the New Orleans Hornets.
His scoring and defense were superb.
Minutes earlier, Ron Artest thumped Stoudemire to the court, halting his drive to the basket with a takedown that was ruled to be a flagrant-1 foul. Stoudemire sank both free throws and Bill Walker swished a 3-pointer to bring the Knicks within 78-70.
Shannon Brown's 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer extended the Lakers' lead to 81-70.
Given that Artest falls into the repeat offender category (see: Malice at the Palace), it's possible he could be suspended for a game or two, with his wrestling-like clothesline of Stoudemire sure to draw a review from the league office.
"If (backup guard) Steve Blake makes that physical play (it's one thing), but if Ron Artest makes it, it might be a fine or a suspension," Bryant acknowledged.
"He walks a very fine line."


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Luckily, iron ore and coal are traded in longer-term forward contracts compared with the real-time pricing of crude oil futures so there will be a delay, but the currency markets will not wait for such a confirmation. In 2008, the Australian dollar went from 99 to 60 U.S. cents in a couple of short months as the markets anticipated a bigger Australian economic slowdown than it actually occurred given the resilience of the Chinese economy at the time. The Australian dollar is tradable via the Currency Shares Australian Dollar Trust (NYSE:FXA), where options are available.
The coming correction in Australian equities might prove quite the buying opportunity for long-term investors interested in China investing proxies in more friendly jurisdictions. (One problem with many Chinese equities is that many companies in the country are not run for the benefit of shareholders, but for the benefit of social stability. This is why a developed market like Australia may offer superior ways to play China.)
The MSCI Australia Index Fund (NYSE:EWA) is an index product for long-term exposure to the Australian economy that is 45% weighted in financial and 24% in material stocks. The large financial sector weighting in the ETF gives leveraged exposure to the rising influence of the China over Australian economic growth.
The large international mining conglomerates that trace their roots to Australia — Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) and BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP) — also are more targeted ways to play the intensifying Aussie-Sino trade entanglement centered on iron ore. Rio holds 23% of global seaborne iron ore trade (Australia in total holds 41%). BHP has the better part of the rest of Australian iron ore output, but it also has major operations in Brazil in partnership with Vale (NYSE:VALE).
The above three players are the heavy hitters in the iron ore market, where the macro winds are shifting in favor of those with Australian operations as output there is growing faster — estimated to rise to 50% of seaborne trade — thanks to less stringent mining regulations and closer proximity to China.
Whether Aussies like it or not, the increasing influence of China over their economy has made their country a leveraged proxy for Chinese economic growth — on both sides of the market.
Ivan Martchev is a research consultant with institutional money manager Navellier & Associates. The opinions expressed are his own. Navellier & Associates holds a position in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto for its clients. This is neither a recommendation to buy nor sell the stocks mentioned in this article. Investors should consult their financial adviser prior to making any decision to buy or sell the aforementioned securities.


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A public education forum, "Ensuring the Success of Young Children in Rural South Carolina" will be hosted by Francis Marion University on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 10 a.m. in Ervin Dining Hall's Palmetto Room.
Presented by the Institute for Child Success, FMU's School of Education and the Gail and Terry Richardson Center for the Child, this forum will examine the current societal and communal complexities of education in rural communities. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is highly encouraged and can be accessed at http://www.instituteforchildsuccess.org/integration.php.
Speakers will address early childhood education, professional development for teachers and education policy concerns. The forum has been organized into a format with keynote speakers providing an overview, followed by a panel discussion.
Slated to offer greetings from the S.C. General Assembly are Rep. Jay Lucas (R-Darlington), speaker pro tempore, and Rep. Terry Alexander (D-Florence), chairman of the subcommittee on Children's Affairs Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee. Those who will be framing the day are Joe Waters, vice president of the Institute for Child Success, and Debbie Robertson, director of S.C. First Steps to School Readiness.
Willie Boyd, Sr., assistant superintendent for administration for Darlington County School District, and Jeronell Bradley, librarian at Florence-Darlington Technical College, will moderate discussion between Josh Bell, executive director of Teach for America South Carolina; Ben Goodman, research scientist for Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University; Jeanine Sato, program director of Durham Connects; Jeanne Gunther, assistant professor of education at FMU; and Judie Jerald, senior early childhood advisor for Save the Children USA.
For additional information, contact Joe Waters at (864) 350-2894, via email at email@example.com or Suzan Orrico, FMU coordinator of continuing education and special projects, at (843) 661-1283, via email at email@example.com.


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Should the applicant and the Public Information Officer follow the amended rules of the state government or abide by the National RTI Act? There's a lot of conflict, say experts
The Maharashtra government's amended RTI (Right to Information) rules are in straight conflict with that of the national RTI Act. This has led to a cloud of confusion amongst RTI applicants and Public Information Officers (PIOs), say RTI experts. One wonders whether this was indeed the intention of the government so as to dilute the RTI movement in the state.
Vijay Kumbhar, a leading RTI activist from Pune, has made the following analysis:
1. The only 150 words restriction: As per the amendment, the RTI applicant is permitted to ask a question on only a single subject matter and restrict his question to 150 words only. (Rule - 3A of Maharashtra's amended rules: - Request relate only to single subject matter: - A request in writing for information under Section 6 of the Act shall relate to one subject matter and it shall not ordinarily exceed one hundred and fifty words , if an applicant wishes to seek information on more than one subject matter , he shall make separate applications; provided that , in case the request made relates to more than one subject matter, the public information officer may respond to the request relating to the first subject matter only and may advice the applicant to make separate applications for each of other subject matters.)
Mr Kumbhar argues as follows: For example, ifthe PIO receives a RTI application which has queries relating to two different departments:
• As per the Maharashtra's amended rules, the PIO will respond only to the first query and will advice the applicant to make a separate application for his second question.
• However, as per the national RTI Act's Section 6 (3) rule, it is responsibility of PIO to transfer application to other public authority. The rule says: (6 (3) - Where an application is made to a public authority requesting for an information,— (i) which is held by another public authority; or (ii) The subject matter of which is more closely connected with the functions of another public authority, the public authority, to which such application is made, shall transfer the application or such part of it as may be appropriate to that other public authority and inform the applicant immediately about such transfer: Provided that the transfer of an application pursuant to this sub-section shall be made as soon as practicable but in no case later than five days from the date of receipt of the application.)
So, what should the PIO do? Should he obey the national RTI Act or the amended rules of the Maharashtra government?
2. The answering of only the first question dilemma: The PIO receives a RTI application related to multiple subject matters which require more than one public authority to give the replies. Maharashtra's amended rules state: "the public information officer may respond to the request relating to the first subject matter only and may advice the applicant to make separate applications for each of other subject matters."
Mr Kumbhar argues: Suppose, the first subject matter is not concerned with the public authority which receives the request, what should the PIO do? Answer the next subject matter related to his public authority or transfer the application under section 6 (3) of the Act or ask the applicant to file another RTI application to the relevant authority?
• As per the Maharashtra's amended rules, "the PIO may respond to the first subject matter only."
• As per Section 6 (3) (excerpted above) of the national RTI Act, it is the PIO's duty to transfer the application to the relevant PIO within five days from the date of application.
So, what should the PIO do? Should he follow Maharashtra's amended rules or the national RTI Act?
3. Regarding the number of words in a RTI application: How does the PIO calculate that the application contains 150 words? Does that mean words including words given in format Rule 3 of Maharashtra RTI rules? There are about 65 to 70 words in that format; if we count 50 words for other matter including the applicant and PIO's name and other things , only 30 to 35 words remains to write in the column "subject matter of information" and "description of information required". Are these number of words sufficient to make a request?
• As per Maharashtra's amended rules: If we go strictly by the words written in rule that "subject matter" shall not ordinarily exceed 150 words , then the applicant gets 150 words to write in the column "subject matter of information", and "description of information required". There's too much confusion here. too.
Opines Maj Gen Sudhir Jatar (retd), "the points are well taken.Strictly, confusion has now been confounded.YASHADA should take up for amending the rules to make them compliantwith the Act and take into account the valid points raised byVijay Kumbhar.Until then, the PIO should show maturity and try to help theinformation seeker as much as possible without being a "lakeer ka faker"!!
(Vinita Deshmukh is the editor of Life 365 (www.life365.in). She is also the consulting editor of Moneylife, an RTI activist and convener of the Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan. She is the recipient of prestigious awards like the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting which she won twice in 1998 and 2005 and the Chameli Devi Jain award for outstanding media person for her investigation series on Dow Chemicals. She co-authored the book "To The Last Bullet - The Inspiring Story of A Braveheart - Ashok Kamte" with Vinita Kamte. She can be reached at [email protected])
According to Tanya Thakur, the Common Law Admission Test 2012, had questions which were not within the prescribed syllabus
The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has issued a notice to the National Law University (NLU), Jodhpur while hearing a petition filed by a class 12 student which stated that the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 was conducted in gross violation of its own specific syllabus. The petitioner has also demanded fresh examination.
Tanya Thakur, the petitioner, said the NLU Jodhpur had mentioned that General Knowledge (GK) section will only test students on their knowledge of current affairs, i.e. matters featuring in the mainstream media between March 2011 and March 2012. Similarly for Legal Aptitude it said that this section will test students only on legal aptitude and not any prior knowledge of law or legal concepts. If a legal term is used it will be explained in the question itself.
However, "in contradiction to what the organizing institution said, at least 22-25 questions in the GK section came much beyond the current affairs period. Similarly, there were many legal terms in Legal Aptitude section that was not defined," says Ms Thakur, who had also taken the entrance exam.
Considering the urgency in the matter, justice SS Chauhan issued a notice to NLU, Jodhpur to explain its position and fixed the next date of hearing on 28th May. The result of the entrance exam is also expected on the same date.
The CLAT is an all-India entrance examination conducted by 14 National Law Schools/Universities for admissions to their under-graduate (Bachelors of Law LLB) and post-graduate degree (Masters of Law- LLM) programmes. The CLAT 2012 was held on 13th May at 46 centres in 20 cities across the country. NLU, Jodhpur was the organizing institute for CLAT 2012.
According to the petition, the situation was even worse for the Legal Aptitude section. "As far as the petitioner can remember, there were a very large number of legal terms in the Legal Aptitude section which was technical/legal in nature but none of these terms were explained or clarified. She says that most of these questions were from the Contract Act but the terms like void, voidable, void ab initio and many other legal terms were not at all defined or explained."
According to the Times of India, CLAT's organising committee had refuted all charges stating that the question paper was set by the experts with questions within the frame work.
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The 'Mandy' singer is set to perform at the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Norway, alongside Jamiroquai, Florence and the Machine and Elvis Costello.
Barry Manilow has joined the line-up for the upcoming Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Norway. The "Mandy" singer will take to the stage in Oslo next month, December 11, alongside Brits Jamiroquai, Florence and the Machine and Elvis Costello, Herbie Hancock and Colbie Caillat.
Oscar-winning Indian composer A.R. Rahman will also be a part of the prestigious event, which will be held to honor 2010 peace laureate, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Denzel Washington will host the concert.
Barry Manilow is best known for hits such as "Could It Be Magic", "Can't Smile Without You", "Copacabana (At The Copa)", "New York City Rhythm", "When October Goes", "Early Morning Strangers" and "I Write the Songs".


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Perhaps the most elusive concept in our culture is the ''Australian national identity''. The thought that there is one single identity that binds us all together is, on reflection, a bit silly, but the yearning and the search for one persists. This is at the heart of Hannah Gadsby's Oz (ABC1, 10pm).
The Oz of the title is, of course, Australia, but Gadsby, pictured, confesses that sometimes she feels like Dorothy in that other Oz, ''when I walk around through a field in appropriate clothing, feeling my pasty skin burning a slow death''.
And it's probably true that when imagining the stereotypical Aussie, few people picture a lesbian comedian with a bow tie and a degree in art history. But as she tells us, she belongs here, as we all do, and it's that degree that she puts to good use in trying to uncover the truth about Australians' sense of self, through the work of our artists.
In the first episode Gadsby dips into our colonial history, and examines how modern artists are challenging colonial artists' depictions of contact between European settlers and the original inhabitants. As a comedian Gadsby is a hilariously deadpan performer, but although she drops a few jokes into her tour d'art, her key asset here is not laughter, but the knowledge and passion she brings to the subject.
An enthusiastic and companionable scholar, she leavens the slightly predictable doco-series style - slow pans across paintings, shots of Hannah travelling through the Australian landscape gazing into the distance - with her obvious fascination with art old and new, and for the stories lying behind the works, and with a wide-eyed absence of TV-presenter slickness that stands her in good stead when it comes to holding the interest of the gaggle of restless pupils she is lecturing to in their living rooms. And, of course, she has some extremely able co-stars - beautiful artworks that it's a pleasure to be introduced to.
Also pleasurable company is Zooey Deschanel, who is capable of charming millions with her quirky adorability, while simultaneously annoying millions of others with her quirky adorability. Though I fall into the former category, New Girl (Eleven, 8.30pm) struggles to capitalise on Deschanel's charm to become anything better than ''pretty good''.
A pleasant show populated by pleasant people, at its best it raises some nice laughs. At its worst, you'd describe it as ''wacky''. The comic talents of Deschanel as the (no longer) new girl, and Max Greenfield as Schmidt, are rarely matched by the rest of the cast, who sometimes verge on the cardboard. Still, if you like quirks, there are heaps of them.


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United we stand.
United Technologies announced its largest purchase to date, acquiring aircraft-components maker Goodrich in a $16.4-billion cash deal. United will pay $127.50 for each share of Goodrich, representing a 16% premium to Wednesday's close and a 47% premium to last Thursday's close when news of the deal was initially leaked. Roughly three quarters of the purchase will be funded with debt while the remainder of funds will be raised from new stock issuance. Additionally, United executives said the company would reduce its spending on share buybacks and other M&A activity over the next few years as it digests the purchase. The company expects roughly $350-400 million in savings, primarily by eliminating functions Goodrich won't need now that it is no longer a publicly traded company.
United Technologies' CEO said, "We are on the eve of a substantial ramp-up. With the addition of Goodrich we really strengthened our aerospace position." Goodrich's operations will be combined with United's Hamilton Sundstrand division and will be run by current Goodrich CEO Marshall Larsen. United has been attempting to improve its position in the aerospace industry; however, growth has been slower than that of its commercial building units. The purchase of Goodrich will make the company one of the biggest players in the U.S. aviation industry and will increase United's exposure to the commercial aviation industry, essential as the U.S. government continues to pare its spending
Goodrich (GR : NYSE : US$120.60), Net Change: 11.11, % Change: 10.15%, Volume: 35,355,188
United Technologies (UTX : NYSE : US$68.31), Net Change: -6.56, % Change: -8.76%, Volume: 13,007,744


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12th Largest Fish
will win a 6' x 16' Fish House!
Other prizes will consist of....
Biggest Game Fish
1st place - Otter Fish House
2nd place - Red Lake stay in a 10' X 24' sleeper house
3rd place - Ice Auger
Biggest Pan Fish
1st place - Ice Auger
Smallest Northern
"wins a Jiffy of a prize"
Tickets to register each fish into contest and also to win door prizes the tickets are Blue and cost $5.00 each
(see Ticket Information page for more info)
The Lions Club will have a stand
on the lake selling Burgers, hot dogs and hot chocolate
There will also be
"Door Prizes on the Lake"!
Cedar Lake; Annandale, MN
Time: 12:00-3:00pm
Following the contest there will be a meal at the Maple Lake Legion
they will have:
pulled pork sandwiches with chips, pickle and a bar or cookie.
There will also be hot dogs for the kids
for $5.00


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Kershaw Wins 2013 National League Cy Young Award
Kershaw posted MLB's Best ERA at 1.83
By Roger Hoover / Jacksonville Suns | November 14, 2013 9:32 AM ET
JACKSONVILLE - Former Jacksonville Suns pitcher and Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw was named the 2013 National League Cy Young Award winner, his second-career selection, announced by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Wednesday night.
Kershaw garnered 29 of 30 first-place votes, and this is his second Cy Young Award in the past three seasons after winning the honor in 2011.
"Winning this award a second time is every bit as special as it was the first time around," Kershaw said in a press release by the Dodgers on Wednesday. "I want to especially thank my teammates and coaches for helping place me in such amazing company."
A first round selection (sixth overall) by the Dodgers in 2006, Kershaw rose quickly throughout the L.A. system reaching Double-A Jacksonville just a year later in 2007.
That season Kershaw made five starts for the Suns, going 1-2 with a 3.65 ERA. In 2008 Kershaw began the season as the Suns' ace, going 2-3 with a 1.91 ERA in 13 games and 11 starts in a Jacksonville uniform.
Kershaw earned his first call-up to the big leagues on May 28 before being sent back Jacksonville, and then he joined the Dodgers for good on July 22, 2008.
Since that point, Kershaw has been a three-time National League All-Star (2011-13), a two-time N.L. strikeout champion (2011, 2013), and three-time N.L. ERA champion (2011-13).
This season Kershaw went 16-9 with a 1.83 ERA in 33 starts and 236 innings for the Dodgers, helping Los Angeles win the National League West Division Title. He posted a Major League-leading 1.83 ERA as he won his second Cy Young Award.
Detroit's Max Scherzer won the American League Cy Young Award after going 21-3 with a 2.90 ERA in 32 starts in 2013.
Miami Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez, who won the National League Rookie of the Year Award on Monday, finished third in the voting behind Kershaw and St. Louis right-hander Adam Wainwright.
For the latest Suns news this offseason, fans are encouraged to visit www.jaxsuns.com and can keep up with the Jacksonville Suns on the club's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social media platforms, as well as the "Tales from Bragan Field" blog: www.sunsradio.com.
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I thought this would be the Cannes grand prix, anyway it won gold in its category. One single premise: Colour like no other. The music and mood of the ad really makes you travel to another plane... Good job from Fallon.
Can watch it over and over again. what a wonderful work. a classic masterpiece of advertising.
I've seen this ad more times than a normal human should.You really need to see it on a proper new tv screen to get the full effect, but oh what an effect! It's beautiful and there's a calmness in this madness that somehow overtakes me. I'm also partial to Jose's cover of this song and prefer it to the original. Also - an iconic city used for an iconic brand.
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* Best Paper Award - Wu, A., Joyner, D. and Do, E. Y., Move, Beam, and
Check! Imagineering Tangible Optical Chess on An Interactive Tabletop
Display, ACM Computers in Entertainment, Volume 8, Issue 3, Article 20, 15
pages, Dec. 2010, doi>10.1145/1902593.1902599
* Ellen delivered a keynote "Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play" at the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia Dec, 2010, Allahabad, India
* Ellen delivered a keynote speech at Keio University (Nov, 2010) at the Symbiotic, Safe and Secure System Design – International Symposim on Biofied Buildings, Nov 26, at Keio University, kenchiku pdf , at Sydney University (Nov 2010) and several universities in Taiwan (May 2010)
* Featured in the Information Technology section of the Chronicle of Higher Education article Composers and Computers Work in Harmony at Georgia Tech's Music Center, by Eric Kelderman, Jan 30, 2009 issue.
* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Unlocking Human Potential through Technological Innovation - Interdisciplinary Research at Georgia Institute of Technolog" at Intelligent . Quality . Good Life conference sponsored by National Science Council, and hosted by INSIGHT Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan 19, 2009. The keynote paper in proceeding pp. 11 - 20.
* Ellen in the news and video of Piano Touch/Mobile Music Touch - Reinventing the Way People Learn to Play the Piano November 7, 2008
* Ellen delivered a talk at the Planning, Design + Built Environment PhD Program's Doctoral Seminar at Clemson University on Octber 17, 2008
* Ellen delivered a talk at HCI Seminar at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, on October 4, 2007.
* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Every Drawing Tells a Story at Spatial Cognition in Architecutral Design, September 19, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Patient Room of the Future" at the Smart Living Space Symposium , June 8-9, 2007, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, supported by the National Science Council in Taiwan. Here is a couple slides from the talk
* Electronic Cocktail Napkin (and Ellen) featured in the UK's Computer Shopper "Britain's Biggest Technology Magazine," feature story of Sketch Recognition, March 2006, 224-227. (did not get all the facts right, but nice being mentioned)
Design Sketches and Sketch Design Tools, in Knowledge-Based Systems,
Volume 18, Issue 8, December 2005, Pages 383-405, is ranked 14th on the
Top 25 Hottest articles during Jan-March 2006 in
the Subject Area: Computer Science, Journal: Knowledge-Based Systems
* Drawing on
the Back of an Envelope: a framework for interacting with
application programs by freehand drawing, Computers and Graphics, 24 (6)
(2000) pp. 835-849 Best
Paper Award, Journal in Computers and Graphics (2000)
* Ellen delivered a keynote speech titled "Things that Think, Spaces that Sense and Places that Play" at the Smart Living Space Symposium, June 1-2, 2006, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, supported by the National Science Council in Taiwan, also a talk at the HCI Groups in Computer Science at National Taiwan University - Things that Think, Spaces that Sense, and Places that Play, a short overview of the talk.
Here is part of the Home in the
Digital Age presentation * Featured in "Next Generation Tools for Architects", by Denise Fulton, Northwest Science & Technology magazine
* Featured in "Next Generation Tools for Architects", by Denise Fulton, Northwest Science & Technology magazinehttp://www.nwst.org/, Autumn 2002 issue, pp. 32-37. PNWST.pdf or /archi/NW-ST/.
* "Next Generation Tools" featured on the University of Washington's homepagehttp://www.washington.edu Nov. 6-12, 2002. See the page that links to the text only story summary http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/design.html, also archived at UW-News/design.html or UW-News/NextTools.pdf
* Cover story, "Picture this: problem solving in 3D", at Seattle Post Intelligencer Local News, by Jake Ellison, September 11, 2002, pp. B1 & 4, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/86491_visual11.shtml also archived at seattlepi/visual.html
* Visual Thinking and Spatial Reasoningclass listed at University Honors News http://depts.washington.edu/uwhonors/news.html, see also PDF file.
* Featured in "Digital Architecture" on Komo TV, Channel 4 evening news, November 18, 2001, by Natasha Jones from Tech TV. See the movie clips atkomo.html.
* Featured in UW Daily, "UW Design Machine Group unveils new Programs," by Ken Michelson, November 8, 2001.http://www.thedaily.washington.edu/ . Also on-line at udaily/udaily-dmg.html and daily -sam.pdf
* Featured in Daily Journal of Commerce, October 31, 2001. "Design Machine Group shows off new tools" by Sam Bennett.http://www.djc.com/. Archived at djc/daily.html.
* Featured in University Week, October 25, 2001. "Computer more than super pencil" by Steve Goldsmith, U Week Vol. 19, #4.http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.10.OCT_25/.
Also on-line atuweek-dmg.pdf and uweek /archives/2001.10.OCT_25/frame.html.
* "The Poetic Potentials of Computers, a class that takes up the principles of Bauhaus", Bennett Neiman and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, in Arquitectura Digital: Architectural and Digital Design magazine, No. 9, March. 2000, pp 64-69, S.A.I.C. Capital Federal, Argentina.http://www.arquitecturadigital.com.
* Featured in Architecture Week, On-line magazine for Architecture, June 14 issue, 2000, "The Right Tool at the Right Time" by B. J. Novitski, on-line athttp://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2000/0614/tools_1-1.html.
* Featured in Architecture Week, Educationhttp://www.architectureweek.com/topics/education.html
* Featured in Architecture Week, On-line Digital Libraryhttp://www.architectureweek.com/topics/digital.html
* Listed in International Graphonomics Society Bulletin, 1999, ISBN 1560-3253 http://www.socsci.kun.nl/psy/igs/BIGS13_01.PDF
* Featured in "Today's Research, Tomorrow's Software," Technology Column, by B. J. Novitski, in Architectural Record, The Millennium Futures to Come, December, 1999. AR-RTRT-ellen.pdf
* "An Analog Digital Language of Vision," Bennett R. Neiman and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, in Partnership in Learning, FormZ Joint Study Annual Report, 1999, pp. 62-65.autodesys Inc. Also,http://www.formz.com/web_site_2000/content_pages/Joint_Study/JS99/pgs_062-063.pdf and http://www.formz.com/web_site_2000/content_pages/Joint_Study/JS99/pgs_064-065.pdf also archived here - pgs_062-063.pdf and pgs_064-065.pdf
* Featured in CADENCE magazine, "The Future of AEC Technology" by Jerry Laiserin, January, 1999 issue. On-line excerpt athttp://www.cadenceweb.com/1999/0199/issuefocus0199.html also archived at cadence/1999/0199/issuefocus0199.html


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A Bike Share Grows In Philly
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Don't worry, this one will get around to local food. On Sunday we took our first ride on Indego, Philadelphia's brand new bike sharing program. We signed up online, picked up our bikes at the station a block from our house, and headed out. Since it was our first ride, and neither of us are by any means veteran city riders, we went straight to the Delaware River Trail that leads past the new Washington Avenue Green and continues south. We rode down to check out the construction of Pier 68, a new park featuring fishing and a sloping lawn for picnicking, due to open later this summer.
The bikes were smartly designed, solidly built, easy to check out and return and absurdly fun to ride.
And the local food? I don't know if it was because I had just read Marie Viljoen describe them on her blog 66 Square Feet or our new vantage point from the bikes, but I spotted several patches of japanese knotweed growing along the trail. According to Viljoen, local forager David Siller and others, the invasive knotweed has a sour, lemony taste similar to rhubarb. We might just have to return and fill those handy baskets.
Round the Old Oak Tree
Monday, September 05, 2011
There are all sorts of nut trees in my neighborhood, but none so plentiful as oak trees . . . which produce acorns. You can't drive down my street in the fall without getting pelted by these little nuggets. Despite their wide availability, you don't really see acorn meats for sale at the grocery store—that doesn't mean they're not edible, though. They're good for you, too: 1 oz. of dried acorns has only a small amount of saturated fat, and they're a good source of copper and vitamin B-12.
Foraging for acorns is the tricky part—the ones on the ground without the caps are likely to be riddled with worms. And some varieties of oak produce acorns high in tannins, which makes them bitter. I won't bore you with the details of which oak trees produce the best acorns. Other posts have already been written on the topic of what to look for, how to shell them, and the best way to dry them. The real question is this: after you've spent the time to gather and prep them, what the hell do you do with them?
Acorn stuffing
Acorn wine
Acorn bread
Acorn pancakes
Spiced picked acords
Acorn stew
All you have to do is beat the squirrels to the oak trees.
Sustainable Saturdays in University City
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Foraging! Wine and Cheese! Local Honey! Farmers' Market! Seed Bombs! Get in this great series of events this coming Saturday! Farm to Table in West Philadelphia.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
As I was taking the pictures for this post, a guy came up to me and asked what I was doing, if I was documenting the weedy scrabble of this vacant lot. That's the thing about mulberries: the last stands of these tart/sweet, juicy, free berries are in vacant city lots. I have to admit that I love to freak people out by wandering up and eating berries off the tree. (Common sense caution: if you're not sure that it's a mulberry, don't eat it. Go forage with someone who knows.) This clump is at 22nd/Carpenter streets. Different clumps have different tastes—some have not much flavor at all. Wander around until you find one that's yummy.
You're Going to Eat What?
Saturday, May 24, 2008
While on a recent field to the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, NJ, I took advantage of some down time (i.e., my students were preoccupied with netting wildlife) to harvest some pickleweed (Salicornia europeae variety rubra). During the field trip, our guide pointed out some of the more interesting and useful plants in the ecosystem – including the fragrant bayberry bush (Myrica pensylvanica), which colonists used to make candles.
It turns out that pickleweed is edible, with a wonderful texture and a briny taste not unlke a brined "pickle" (hence the name, I suppose). Bringing two handfuls home, I found it a wonderful addition to a mixed green salad.
The larger point I am trying to make here is something that when I go to the farmer's market, I am typically looking for local versions of familiar foods – potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, onions. Yet, how much edible local vegetation is out there? What possibilities have I ignored through simple ignorance of my ecosystem?
Eat your weeds
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dandelions are popping up everywhere I look lately. They are the bane of my existence in the garden, mostly because they're so hard to permanently get rid of. Maybe I shouldn't try so hard and, instead, use the overabundance of weeds to my advantage. In terms of foraging, the dandelion is useful in a variety of ways - from the leaves to the blossoms.
The most common use of the dandelion are the greens. You'll pay a small fortune for dandelion greens at the market - if you can even find them. They're great in salads as a bitter green, or fantastic cooked down in a saute or soup or warm salad. Just walk out to your back yard or where ever dandelions are plentiful and pick the leaves off the plant!
I only recently discovered that you can eat the dandelion blossoms, as well! Try fried dandelion blossoms, dandelion jelly, or dandelion wine. You can even use dandelion root to make coffee.
Dandelions can even be used for home remedies - dandelion oil is used to treat rheumatism.
There's treasure in those weeds you keep mowing over - be sure to pick those dandelion flowers and leaves before you mow next time!
Other dandelion recipes:
recipes for invasive plants
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Last week, a friend of mine showed me the APWG recipe page, called Eat Your Weedies. Some of the links there include recipes for garlic mustard soup, Japanese knotwood and apple pie, barberry jelly, and rose hip jam. I know some of us have talked about trying to learn to identify and hunt mushrooms, but most of these invasives are much easier to spot. And, hey, eating invasive plants gives the native plants just a little more of a chance, in addition to being relatively simple to find nearby.
(Lilac shown because I bought a branch of lilac blossoms at the farmers' market this morning. I don't recommend eating them.)
Gone fishing
Monday, March 31, 2008
I like to head down to the Italian Market sometimes and visit the fish mongers. Sometimes the fish look good and fresh, and sometimes they don't. Whatever the case, it's rare that the fish guys have a good sense of where exactly that fish came from…and chances are that it definitely isn't local.
It is something of a sore point with me that we live so close to the Jersey shore and the waters of the Chesapeake, yet there's no good mechanism in or around Philadelphia to find local fish. It's simple to find locally grown produce and meat - farmers are proud of it and they advertise. Why that isn't the case with locally grown/locally caught fish, I'll never know.
But let it never be said we can't take matters into our own hands, especially if you've got a husband who likes to fish!
For Philadelphians, fishing for your own food is problematic. I mean, the very idea of eating fish caught in the city limits parts of the Delaware or Schuylkill Rivers is unthinkable. Corporations routinely dump arsenic, untreated sewage, and all sorts of things into our waterways, and I'm on the water enough to know there are a plethora of dead bodies in both rivers. You can eat some of the fish caught in the river, but there's a severe limit on what you can eat and how much of it you can eat.
The suburbs offer a better solution. In some cases, not much better. But at least you don't have to worry too much about eating super contaminated three-eyed fish!
In Southeast Pennsylvania trout season started on March 29. Out here in Delaware County, there are a few good spots to fish trout. Saturday morning, my husband took his first fishing jaunt of the season and brought home a rainbow trout and a brown trout. My hero!
We did have a discussion, though, about whether or not you can call a trout caught just a few miles from the house but raised further away local. In this case, the trout that were stocked are from somewhere in Lancaster County and that means they're probably within our 100 mile radius. But if the fish came from further away, I'm not sure if that would count. Thoughts on this?
After all my griping about not being able to find a reliable source for local fish, I was so happy to have these trout! You just can't get any fresher than that. I pan-fried them in some butter I made last week, and served the fillets with some lightly cooked baby spinach from, I think, Green Meadow Farm and sauteed mushrooms from Mother Earth Mushrooms. It was fantastic, and I'm looking forward to more freshly caught trout this season!
With April come violets!
Friday, March 28, 2008
I've heard it said that April is the cruelest month here in Pennsylvania in terms of locally grown produce. But with April usually comes violets. Around my house we generally tend to start see them popping up around mid-April through the end of May. Most people don't look at wild violets growing in the yard and think "Hey, I think I'll eat those!" but foraging for wild violets is a sweet way to get in some early locally grown food.
Yeah, 'sweet'. Get it? I make candied violets every Spring.
True, candied violets don't taste like much except, well, sugar. But if you're decorating a cake, they're useful to have. Or they're good just as a snack. And they last practically forever.
Here's how you do it -
- First, go out into the yard or someone else's yard or wherever violets are growing and pick a couple big handfuls. Whatever you do, make sure you pick them from places you know haven't been treated with pesticides or herbicides or any other potentially dangerous chemicals.
- Wash the violets very gently. You can soak the flowers in cold water for a little while or gently swish them in water, as you prefer. Before you start candying the violets, though, you need to make sure the violets are completely dry…so be sure you give them enough time to air dry.
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees.
- Make egg wash using egg whites from two room temperature eggs with a pinch of water. Whisk the egg white/water mixture until it's just very lightly a little frothy.
- Crush a half cup of granulated sugar with a mortar and pestle. It doesn't have to be like powder, but it should be smaller granules
- Grab a small paint brush and a violet. Dip the brush into the egg white and very gently but thoroughly coat the violet flower on all sides. This works best if you hold the violet by the stem.
- Spoon sugar very gently over the violet to coat it on all sides.
- Lay the violet on a cookie sheet and very gently remove the stem.
- Dry them in your 200 degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let them cool completely, and then store in an air tight container.
Juniper berries
Monday, September 03, 2007
The idea of foraging never occurred to me prior to reading The Omnivore's Dilemma. Rather than something normal people do to find food for themselves, it seemed like something weird and foreign…nearly akin to looking in trash cans for food. I've always been a gardener, excited by the idea of raising my own food. It seems silly now that I would make such a distinction between things I specifically cultivated for food and food that I might find growing wild. It is especially odd, considering I grew up in an area where there were so many hunters my school district was (and continues to be) closed on the first day of deer season - what else is hunting and fishing but foraging?
Foraging is, in its most basic sense, wandering in search of food. And I have done it without considering it as such - like when I was little and gorged myself on a blueberries from a bush I found in the woods. Lately I've been more and more inspired to look for sources of food outside my comfort zone (ie, my garden and the farmer's market). To help me with identification, I took out Edible Wild Plants of Pennsylvania and New York by John Tomikel from my library.
Before I start searching the city and burbs for edible plantlife on public property, I thought I might start in my own backyard. It's still foraging in your backyard, right? If the stuff you find wasn't intended to be food? Well, I'm going to call it foraging. Baby steps to real foraging, maybe.
Many of us have juniper bushes on our property in this neck of the woods. We have three or four giant juniper bushes in the yard. The Juniperus virginiana is an evergreen that is quite common to the area, usually planted as windbreaks or hedgerows. It produces juniper berries, although it's really not a true berry. It's a modified conifer cone, so it's a little scaly. As a rule, you really wouldn't want to eat juniper berries - most are fairly bitter. However, juniper berries do have their uses!
The juniper berry is the major flavoring used to make gin. As far as I know, it is legal to make gin in your home as long as you don't sell it. If you're interested in trying, there are some fairly substantial instructions at Home Distillation of Alcohol.
Beyond their role in making gin, juniper berries are a great flavoring for meat dishes. They are generally used dried and crushed, and are removed from the dish before eating. I have used juniper berries from my bushes in meat marinades. However, I've found all sorts of recipes using juniper berries
For more information about how and when to harvest juniper berries, click here.
A word of caution: juniper is a diuretic and can be harmful to pregnant women (it may cause uterine contractions).


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Brad Pitt has a reputation for being one of the most liberal stars in Hollywood - he has spoken out in support of gay marriage and environmentalism in the past. However, his mom Jane Pitt doesn't seem to be on quite the same page. She wrote a letter to the editor of her local newspaper, the St. Louis News Leader, criticizing an op-ed that suggested Christians should not vote for Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney. While she was at it, she criticized President Barack Obama for supporting … [Read more...]
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Angelina Jolie's Directorial Debut Is About Interfaith Romance
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An environmental rehabilitation project at Impala Rustenburg's tailings dam complex, known as the Woodchips Project, has given birth to a business — Monontsha — which is majority owned by women and has generated 48 jobs.
Woodchips are taken from Impala Rustenburg's mining operations and combined with sewage sludge from the company's water treatment works and earthworms to form compost which is used in the rehabilitation of the slopes of the tailings dam. The technology was developed by Impala Rustenburg and the University of North West (Potchefstroom campus) six years ago.
Seventy-five per cent of Monontsha — the word means 'fertiliser' — is owned by women from the nearby village of Luka with the balance being held by Landfill Consult. The employees all come from Luka. Impala Rustenburg spends in the order of R4 million a year on Monontsha for services provided, which includes the transport of compost and sludge, composting and the vegetating of the tailings dams.
The business has three main areas of activity transport, composting and vegetation — and each is headed by a woman. The woodchips has to be collected as does the dried and treated sewage sludge. Doreen Mabale is responsible for the transport function and says: "I never thought waste could create jobs."
Alien vegetation growing on the slopes of the dam is removed before the compost is added, followed by the sowing of a mixture of indigenous seeds. After the first rains have fallen, it does not take long before new vegetation becomes established. Priscilla Lenkoe who is in charge of the vegetation process says: "We are happy as a community that Impala created jobs for us and reduced employment in the area." Since the start of this project about two years ago 34.4ha have been successfully rehabilitated.
The preparation of the compost is directed by Daphne Mantswe who explains that it takes 12 weeks before it is ready for use on the slopes.
The manager of the Woodchips project, Sam Chauke, from Landfill Consult comments: "The project is a success. The provincial Department of Minerals and Energy and community leaders have acknowledged the tailings dam will be rehabilitated. This is a sustainable environmental solution well beyond the life of mine."
There has also been endorsement for the research that gave rise to the technology that is used and for the positive effect that the project has had on the community. Professor Leon van Rensburg, who was responsible for the research, was awarded with a gold medal by the South African Academy for Sciences Arts & Culture while the project as a whole earned a merit award from the Mail & Guardian's Investing in the Future Awards in 2006. These awards were established to recognise and reward corporate best practice.


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[Identification of item], Postcard Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Postcard collection was assembled by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library through gifts and purchases from 1939 to 2002.
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Encoded by Noah Huffman, October 2012
Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 1939, 1998-0133; 2000-0223; 2002-0166; 2002-0167
Collection contains postcards acquired at various times by the Rubenstein Library at Duke. Collection is organized into three main categories--International, United States, and Miscellaneous. The International postcards are arranged by country and include cards from France, Italy, Canada, England, Germany, Japan, Spain, and Russia. The United States postcards cover many states, with large numbers from North Carolina and Virginia. Subjects represented include ships, food, African-Americans, agriculture, heads of state, flowers and plants, advertising, love and friendship, Confederate memorials, poetry, and animals. There are also many cards of a humorous nature. Also included is a series of postcards with images relating to European artists.
Advertising; Agriculture; Airplanes; Animals; Art; Automobiles.
Birds; Buses; Causes; Circus+Animal Acts; Coat of Arms; Confederate Memorial; Dirigibles; Drawings; Embossed; Fire and fire fighting; Flowers.
Food; Friendship; Historical events; Humor.
Indians; Lakes/seas; Machinery/Road/Street; Maps; Men; Military Uniforms; Mills; Miscellany; Monuments/statues; Motorcycles; Mountains; Museums; Music.
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Quotations; Ships+Boats.
Ships+boats military; Ships+boats sailing; Sports; Stamps; Streets; Trains; US Postal Card Varieties.
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Graduation; Easter; Fourth of July; Halloween; Military greeting cards; Mother's day
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Stephen Hawking Reacts To Higgs Boson Discovery: 'Looks Like I Lost A Bet'
Seen here pimping himself out to Big Bang Theory because dollar bills don't grow on trees, Stephen Hawking has reacted to the recent discovery of a Higgs Boson (Don't say God particle.) by humorously revealing it cost him a bet. Via Mashable:
"The great advances in physics came from experiments that gave results we didn't expect,' Hawking said in an interview with the BBC.
"For this reason, I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the next particle wouldn't be found. It seems I have just lost $100,' concluded Hawking with a smile.
In a random turn, Gordon Kane was mysteriously found dead this morning with the words, "Bow to the Wheel, bitch" written in bullets across his chest leaving police with zero suspects. On that note, here's the good doctor's reaction in his own words for all the lovers of science out there:
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