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Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America.
I like to consider "people habitat" – the realm of places that humans build and inhabit – as having an ecology of its own, roughly analogous to that of natural wildlife habitat. Nature works best when it is in balance and, like the natural environment when operating at its best, the built environment created by us humans should achieve harmony among its various parts and with the larger world upon which it depends. But, while the ecology of the natural world – at least as usually studied – concerns itself primarily with the interdependence and health of non-human species, the ecology of people habitat concerns itself also with our relationships as humans to each other, and with the health of communities that support those relationships and allow us to flourish alongside and within nature.
I believe we humans have an opportunity and a duty to make our habitat work both for us as people and for the sustainable health of the planet writ large. Indeed, if our solutions do not work for people, they will never work for the planet.
I would like to posit five principles that, for me at least, help frame a positive, solution-oriented approach to thinking about the built environment, the habitat we make for people. They certainly aren't the only important principles, or even the only ones I like to write about. But they are, I believe, essential, and among the universe of city thoughts that are dear to my heart.
(These five principles are adapted from, and are among those elaborated in, the book People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities, distributed by Island Press.)
1. It's not really about 'cities'
Merriam-Webster defines a city as "an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village." That's the way most of us use the word, most of the time. But Merriam-Webster also defines a city as "a usually large or important municipality in the United States governed under a charter granted by the state." These are two overlapping but very different things: using the first definition, one might say that "Atlanta" is a sprawling metropolis and powerful economic entity with a population of over 5.4 million people; but, using the second, Atlanta becomes a much smaller area containing only 432,000 residents (as of 2011). Metropolitan Atlanta holds over twelve times the population of the "city" of Atlanta.
The smaller, jurisdictional Atlanta may mean something to candidates for city office and cartographers, but it has very little to do with economic or environmental reality. Jurisdictional city boundaries – the "city limits" – are largely arbitrary in today's world. They date back to the early 20th or even 19th century in many cases, are frequently drawn in crazy ways, and bear little relation to how places function now. I prefer to think in terms of regions (particularly metropolitan regions) and neighborhoods.
With respect to regions, environmental media certainly don't respect political boundaries: Here in the Washington, D.C., area, the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers receive runoff from Virginia and Maryland as well as from the jurisdictional cities of Washington and Alexandria; the Chesapeake Bay watershed includes parts of seven states and scores of municipalities. In Chicago, the air moves freely around the seven counties and 284 separate municipalities just within the Illinois part of the region, to say nothing of those in nearby Wisconsin and Indiana. Very little of the energy consumed within the jurisdictional limits of the city of San Francisco is generated there. And so on. These are fundamentally regional issues.
I would submit that the other scale (besides metropolitan regions) of people habitat that matters the most to the greatest number of people is the neighborhood. Neighborhoods are where we eat and sleep and where, if we are lucky, our kids play and go to school; where we shop for food, take our dry cleaning, and maybe grab a bite to eat; where we meet neighbors on the street on in community gatherings; if we're really lucky, the neighborhood will even have a library branch and a hardware store.
While those of us who live in metropolitan areas – and that includes 83 percent of all Americans – zip all around them to visit friends, conduct business, and shop, we're usually going to other neighborhoods when we do. If the region represents the economic and environmental scale of real cities, the neighborhood represents the human scale.
2. What seems green may actually be brown
Everyone wants to be green these days, especially enterprises that seek to exploit the cachet of sustainability and sell to consumers attracted to a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. The "green" label may be especially appealing if customers don't have to change any of their habits, because the desirable features are embedded in the products or services for sale. But a selective set of facts may conceal the true picture.
The problem is that, in reality, sellers's offerings really can be green in some ways while being "brown," or unsustainable, in others. My favorite example is the phenomenon of so-called "green" buildings or subdivisions located in non-walkable locations that require long car trips for people to get anywhere from them or from anywhere to them.
The truth is that suburban sprawl isnt worthy of the name "green," no matter what environmental bells and whistles are placed on it. In 2010, I reviewed a development called Prairie Ridge Estates, a single-use, single-family residential subdivision being constructed on farmland 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Prairie Ridge's developer billed it as "the nation's first net zero energy community of custom designed homes," in effect suggesting that, if you purchase a home here, you're as green as it gets. The development's web site devoted a page to LEED – the industry-leading green building rating system – featuring the US Green Building Council's LEED logo and even including a mention of LEED for Neighborhood Development.
In fact, Prairie Ridge is not true green development but exurban sprawl. One can earn LEED building certification pretty much in the middle of nowhere, unfortunately, so this project may well be eligible for a green building certification. But – speaking as someone who helped write the LEED for Neighborhood Development standards – there is not a chance in hell that Prairie Ridge could earn certification under the more demanding LEED-ND system, which is designed to reward smart, green urbanism. If it can, there is something very wrong with LEED-ND.
3. Revitalization can be powerful
When revitalization of our distressed neighborhoods and older towns is done well, it is almost unrivaled in its ability to advance simultaneously the "triple bottom line" goals of sustainability: improving the environment, the economy, and social equity. Cities, once seen by many only as a source of environmental problems, can be better understood today also as a source of environmental solutions.
In particular, America's environmental community was initially built on the celebration of wilderness and the rural landscape as a more romantic and pastoral antidote to cities and towns. Cities were seen as something to escape. Environmentalists were among the many who stood by while we severely disinvested so many of our inner cities and traditional towns in the latter half of the 20th century; many Americans embraced unlimited and poorly planned suburban expansion as a sort of (illusory, as it turned out) approximation of living "closer to nature."
We now know that we ignore cities at our – and the environment's – peril. We were and remain right to uphold nature, wildlife and the rural landscape as places critical to celebrate, preserve, and withdraw to. But reinvestment in older cities and towns – the kinds of communities where for millennia people have congregated in search of more efficient commerce, resource sharing, and social networks – holds our greatest hope for sustaining the rural landscape. The best way to save wilderness is through beautiful communities that are built to a walkable scale and do not encroach on places of significant natural value.
For our cities and towns to function as successful people habitat, though, they must be communities where people want to live, work and play. We must make them great, and always within a decidedly nonsprawling form. As it turns out, more efficient land use – in communities of streets, homes, shops, workplaces, schools and the like assembled in proximity to each other – not only helps to save the landscape; it also reduces pollution and consumption of resources. We don't need to drive as far or as often; we share infrastructure.
We cannot continue to spread out as we have in the recent past. The result, as we now know all too well, has been desecration of the natural and rural landscape, decaying city infrastructure, polluted air and waterways, and distressed populations.
Today, we need our inner cities and older communities to absorb as much of our anticipated growth as possible, to keep the impacts per increment of expected growth as low as we can. And, to do that, we must bring cities back to life, with great neighborhoods and complete streets, with walkability and well-functioning public transit, with clean parks and rivers, with air that is safe to breathe and water that is safe to drink. This is the essence of revitalization.
Where cities have been disinvested, we must rebuild them; where populations have been neglected, we must provide them with opportunity; where suburbs have been allowed to sprawl nonsensically, we must retrofit them and make them better. These are not just economic and social matters: these are environmental issues, every bit as deserving of the environmental community's attention as the preservation of nature.
4. Cities need nature
Speaking of nature, we humans have an intrinsic emotional need to connect with the natural world. The eminent biologist E. O. Wilson first called this affinity "biophilia," and the term has stuck. Yet cities also, and fundamentally, need the structure of hardscape urbanism – streets, buildings, and infrastructure – in sufficient density to achieve environmental and economic efficiency and nurture social bonds. It is critical that we incorporate nature into cities, but we must do so in a way that supports urbanity rather than replaces it.
I remember a happy day in our neighborhood a few years back. When I came home from work, three new trees had been planted on our block. That's a small thing, of course, just three street trees. But their predecessors had been sorely missed for a few years. When we moved into the neighborhood a little over 20 years ago, one of its major assets was large, stately street trees, most of them oaks, on nearly every block. The neighborhood was built in the 1920s, so our oldest trees would have been around 70 years old when we moved in.
Many of those older trees remain, but over the twenty-plus years that we have lived in the neighborhood we have lost quite a few to disease and, mostly, storms. I'm sure I was not the only one whose spirits were lifted by the discovery that new ones had been planted: researchers have shown that even just a view of greenery from a window can give us a psychological and physical boost.
Indeed, for our ancestors a keen awareness of the natural environment was essential to survival. When we are deprived of nature, we lose a basic aspect of humanity. Who among us has not enjoyed a stroll, ridden a bike, read a book or magazine, learned a sport, fallen in love, taken a nap, or otherwise enjoyed the respite and communion with nature provided by a natural area or lovely city park? In cities, the presence of nature – whether interspersed among our streets, buildings and yards or more organized into parks – connects us with growth and with the seasons, providing a softness to complement the concrete of our streets and sidewalks and the brick and wood of our houses.
5. Sustainability is where the heart is
Environmentalists, for the most part, operate in a world anchored in science: particular species saved or threatened, grams of carbon or nitrogen oxide in the air, levels of pollutants in waterways, vehicle miles traveled, and so on. These are critical, but so are characteristics that cannot be measured.
For example, we all know city places that inspire romance – places that kindle love, if you will. There are the biggies, such as Paris, Rome, and San Francisco. There are historic districts in many cities with narrow, brick or cobbled streets. There are city squares set against dramatic natural views of mountains, desert, or water, or set against dramatic urban views of skylines, majestic buildings, and twinkling lights. There are tucked-away spots with an architecture of intimacy. Most of us have our favorites.
But I submit that almost all of these city places that inspire love, and others that simply inspire, are also lovable themselves. Is this important? Should those of us who care about sustainability also care whether a place is "lovable"? Shouldn't we only care about the resources it consumes and the pollution it generates?
I reject the assumption that great numbers on sustainability indicators make a great place, or that whether a place is great doesn't matter if it shows well on sustainability indicators. In fact, as my friend Steve Mouzon has articulated so well, I'll stand these notions on their head and say that places are sustainable only if they are also lovable. The truth is that the mushy stuff – legacy, beauty, places that speak to the heart and soul – matters. But what about the whole "it's in the eye of the beholder" thing? If we can't reach consensus on a definition of lovable, then how do we know when we have it?
I'll grant that lovability – or beauty – can be elusive to define, especially over time.But being elusive to define with certainty is not the same thing as being unimportant. While there may not be unanimity, there are in fact places that are pretty darn close to being universally loved. And they are the ones most likely to be defended and cared for over time, and thus the most sustainable in a very literal way. We should study them, learn from them, and create more of them. Lovability alone may not equate to environmental sustainability; but good environmental performance alone may not equate to literal sustainability.
Top image courtesy of Flickr user Payton Chung.
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog, an Atlantic partner site.
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Students celebrate 20 years of supporting peers' work in the public interest
February 25, 2010
Lewis & Clark Law School alumni choose careers in public interest law at a rate nearly three times the national average. A number of programs and projects at the law school, such as legal clinics, externships, and the Public Interest Law Project (PILP) help students and graduates succeed in the sector.
For the past 20 years, PILP has organized an auction to raise funds in support of summer stipends for students who work in the public sector and loan assistance for recent graduates who work in public interest positions. Student organizers of the 2010 auction, which will take place on March 6, hope to raise $100,000 at the event.
Here, the auction directors, Ellie Dawson, Adam Adkin, and Karen Long, discuss the importance of the project and their goals for the event.
What is the mission of the Public Interest Law Project, and what is its impact?
PILP exists to promote public interest law on and off campus. PILP brings in speakers to discuss all types of public interest law, from environmental to domestic violence to public defense. We also raise funds to support students in their public interest careers, mostly by providing stipends so that students can work for public interest organizations that would not be able to hire them otherwise. We also support the Loan Repayment Assistance Program, which helps lawyers ameliorate their debt once they embark on a public interest law career.
This year is the twentieth annual auction hosted by PILP. What do you think the keys to this event's success and longevity have been?
We have a legal community at Lewis & Clark and in the greater Portland area that is incredibly supportive of public interest law, more so than most areas. Lewis & Clark consistently ranks among the nation's top public interest law schools, and the success of the auction reflects that support.
How many students and faculty are involved with PILP?
PILP has a wonderful faculty advisor, Bill Penn, who works in the Career Services office. We also have several faculty members who help out on a regular basis with the auction and other events. There is also an Advisory Board comprising faculty, staff, and attorneys in the community. The PILP Board itself has about 15 student members, varying from year-to-year, and there are scores of student volunteers who help out with the auction and our other events.
What will the auction be like this year, and who should attend?
Everyone should attend, provided they are 21 and older! The cost is only $20 for students (or simply make a donation and you get in for free) and $30 general admission, far below the standard for similar events in Portland, especially since there will be free food and drink. The theme is "One Hundred Grand! Our Twentieth Annual Celebration!" reflecting our goal of raising $100,000 for our 20th year. We have some excellent items, including ready-made date nights with movie tickets and restaurant gift certificates, courtside Blazer tickets, a week stay on the Oregon coast, and of course, plenty of bottles of great wine.
Besides the auction, what other activities and events does PILP host to raise money throughout the year?
PILP has a yearly karaoke night, where we bring together professors and students to rock to our favorite tunes. We also have a poker night that raises funds, as well as several smaller fundraisers during the year like restaurant partnerships and candy sales.
The funds that PILP raises throughout the year support the work of recent alumni and current students. PILP stipend recipients work in a variety of public interest areas. Can you offer some examples?
Stipend recipients perform legal work under the supervision of practicing attorneys over their summer. The work that they do depends upon the organizations that they are working for. Some recent examples of hosting organizations include Legal Aid Services of Oregon, CRAG Law Center, Oceana, Center for Food Safety, the Community Development Law Center, and the Juvenile Rights Project. An entire list of organizations can be found at our website.
Learn more about PILP's work in this video feature about a student who received a stipend to work for an organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income individuals and families.

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Oxygen Team Unveils Wallpaper Collection for KDE 4.0
The Oxygen team is happy to present the final selection of 15 wallpapers that will be released with KDE 4.0. It took longer than expected to manage the
The Oxygen team are overjoyed at the response and want to thank everyone who took part.
All of these wallpapers are being released under the LGPL version 3 license. For more insights by the jury, check Riccardo's blog.
Code Poet's Dream
Colorado Farm
Curls On Green
Fields Of Peace
Fresh Morning
Golden Ripples
Green Concentration
Leaf's Labyrinth
There's Rain On The Table
Red Leaf
Skeeter Hawk
A big thanks for all the participants and congratulations to the winners by the Oxygen team.
Re: Gorgeous Pictures
Well... if the artists aren't allowed to take part in this, we'd have less good wallpapers...
I don't think it was unfair... it just proves that the kde artists are very talented ;)
By Robin at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Gorgeous Pictures
Frist the one suposedly mine is not mine at all its realy from Jim (code poet).
By nuno pinheiro at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Gorgeous Pictures
I don't think you guys need to defend yourself. If it were a serious contest with huge prizes to be won, people might have a point. As it is, you asked for contributions to select a set of stunning images to use as backgrounds. I think the artists community around KDE has every right to participate in that. In fact: I am very glad they do!
By Andre at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
There's typo in links to VladStudio
By Stalwart at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Can't wait to turn all these...
into a screensaver slideshow!
By jasper at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Green Concentration
The link to Green Concentration points to a broken image, as only the top half seems to have the image data.
Guys, these are beautiful images, by any standards. Fantastic work to authors and organisers alike!
By markrian at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Summer is great
I finally tried running a full KDE 4 session just this last week. I just have to say that the Summer background (the default) is just fantastic and fits in well with the rest of the schema.
By Ian Monroe at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
First of all, to get things straight, KDE 4 will have the best artwork, of any KDE so far! This is really great work! These pictures are overall pretty awesome! And I mean it, despite my comments below!! It's critics on a high level ;)
For the next contest I'd like to make some suggestions however to keep in mind:
- Out of those 15 pictures, 10 are nature shots and of those 7 are leaves, also only 2 are non photographic pictures. IMHO it would have been better to have a bit more diversion, thematically. Maybe another non photographic background in the style of EOS could still be added.
- I'm personally a bit bored of those overdone macro shots, like Red Leaf or Fresh Morning. I think it's sometimes a bit too much macro, bluring the background a bit too much, losing cohesion between the macro object and the background. It's as always, less is often more ;)
- Green Concentration is IMHO a bit too intensive for a default background picture, it's pretty blinding if have fullscreen...
By Psychotron at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Pretty!!
I agrea in most acounts, in the end its a mater of the quality of the abstract non photografic images we recived not being good enough, I should say so, I comited quite a few of those :)
Again this were the best one in our opinion.
By nuno pinheiro at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
my preferences.
please, my it be "Colorado Farm Oil Paint". I always have problems with bright backgrounds making the icons less readable, and this one is dark. feels darker than just about all of them, in any case. it also looks stunning, which helps.
if it has to be abstract than I sure hope it's "Emotion", because I don't like "Eos" at all.
the rest of the wallpapers would be OK, I just think their nothing special.
By yman at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Nice but not too similar???
Hello... just my 5 cents.. nice are all very nice.. but are not all too much similar???
By Sylvaticus at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Nice but not too similar???
I agree, and it seems every image is either predominantly green or blue. Not only are the subjects of the images similar, but the colors.
By T. J. Brumfield at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Sorry to say that, but most of this pictures make me headache. Too blurry, too unsharp. This abrupt switch from sharp to unsharp looks on ome of them very artificial.
I would not want such pictures on my screenbackground.
By Boronk at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Headache
lol unsharp?
By Garza at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Headache
I agree. Plus they are very similar to each other. I would prefer a bit more diversity.
They are nice pictures generally speaking, but not so great for the screen background.
By SK at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
Re: Headache
Hell, you obviously didn't try them.
Please Oxygen team, do not even bother whit those trolls.
By Luis at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Headache
Yeah, your rite. All those pictures suck. I hate them all!
By A Hater at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
these are all amazing. Also the work of the top 100 artists should be posted later and available for download too. I mean the top 100 wallpapers!
By feng shaun at Mon, 2007/11/19 - 6:00am
miss some walls about konqui....and kde4, i like nature...but is kde4, the most expected DE, and not wallpaper about kd4 or konqui ???
By Rudolhp at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Nice pictures but I don't think they are good wallpapers - they contain too much contrast.
Let me qoute the openSUSE artwork guidelines ( http://en.opensuse.org/Artwork:Guidelines ):
The goal of the default wallpaper graphic is to be unobrtusive and allow the items on the desktop to be seen. It should not hinder the overview of user's desktop.
While a solid color background seems to be a perfect fit based on the goal above, the wallpaper also shouldn't be completely dull and boring.
It is very likely that a user will customize a wallpaper and even go against the outlined goal, putting a photo of his beloved one as the background. The default graphic however should only be some sort of abstract shape with low contrast of the texture. Abstract shapes work best for two reasons. First it doesn't make the human visual system focus on the background, but the items on top of it and also it avoids cultural or religious specifics. Using a picture of an animal might have such implications and in worst case scenario insult the user."
I agree with them and I don't think these pictures match them.
By Grósz Dániel at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Wallpapers?
My thoughts exactly, well said.
By MOP at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
I submitted some wallpapers to the contest...
Now that the contest is over, I feel free to submit them to KDE Look. If all other contestants did the same, we would have 1900 new wallpapers.
By Paul Leopardi at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Xinerama wallpapers
Will these wallpapers be available in dual-screen resolutions as welll?
By Henrik at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: Xinerama wallpapers
Why ? You can set a wallpapers for each screen, which IMO looks better. My problem is that the slideshow screensaver of kde3 cannot handle the two screens of xinerama as two. So the slideshow is just unuseable and ugly.
By Felix at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
No KDE logo
These are nice pictures but I was expecting wallpapers with KDE4 logo. None of them has it. They look like ordinary pictures not wallpapers.
By parsek at Tue, 2007/11/20 - 6:00am
Re: No KDE logo
there is no need for a kde logo on the wallpaper
By pete at Wed, 2007/11/21 - 6:00am
its vladstudio
By pete at Wed, 2007/11/21 - 6:00am


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A week of post-beta bug squashing!
In January the KDE community is set to ship major new versions of the Plasma workspaces, the KDE applications and the KDE development frameworks. As usual, a series of beta versions and release candidates is released in the months leading up to the release day, with the purpose of letting users test the changes in the upcoming versions and help us find and fix bugs and regressions.
The first of these pre-releases, 4.6 Beta 1, is out now, and you can help the KDE team ensure the upcoming final release is stable and solid: the KDE BugSquad team plans on having a Beta 1 Bug Squashing week, with the aim of having as many bugs as possible reported and to triage them together.
When will it happen?
How can you help?
You do not need to be a developer or have specific skills to help.
What needs to be installed?
Where are people going to meet?
Bug triaging is a very nice way of getting involved with the KDE community. Join the BugSquad team — you'll have a lot of fun and will be contributing to make a more successful KDE release day!
KDEPIM & kmail2
I'm trying to file some bugs after trying out beta1.
Kmail2 ist kinda problematic in its current state I think. I don't know how to file some helpful bug reports. I have about 25.000 mails in my inbox. Old kmail was stable and quick enough to deal with this. Searching was fast, displaying the message list was fast.
Kmail2/Akonadi does not really crash. it simply hogs up all the available memory and grinds the system to a halt while it tries to index 5GB of emails...
Second, my $home is on NFS... So Akonadi runs a Mysql instance locally while the db-file is on a remote fs... ;-( With "Maildir" it was o.k.
I think I need some expert advice. I'd really like to use Akonadi/kmail2, but how to do it the right way?
By thomas at Wed, 2010/12/01 - 4:47pm
Is there any point ? Serious
Is there any point ? Serious bugs have been found, and confirmed, but persist in multiple subsequent releases.
By Tom Chiverton at Thu, 2010/12/02 - 10:15pm
Bug fixing
Have any of your reports led to fixes? If so, keep at it; you'll likely get some success. If not, and they've languished for > 6 months, I can understand some frustration, especially if you've gone to the trouble to write really good, detailed bug reports. It's probably worth remembering (if you don't already) that different bits of code are maintained by different people. Some developers will get to your report quickly, and some not.
Developer time is just scarce. I've written some really nice bug reports (spent hours on them) that have languished more than a year with nary a peep. Others get looked at in a couple of hours. KDE seems to have about the same spectrum of response times as any other project I've reported bugs to. And those that get fixed, get fixed in someone's spare time, which is also worth remembering!
By tangent at Fri, 2010/12/03 - 2:55am
It's not that as such. It's
It's not that as such.
The power-button data-loss bug is obvious to anyone who uses KDE4 on Ubuntu. How many people get frustrated and don't post ? Why isn't it noticed by the maintainers ?
The less serious but experience ruining graphical glitches likewise.
By Tom Chiverton at Fri, 2010/12/03 - 6:27pm
Obvious bugs
Sometimes they are obvious and should have been fixed. But I'd guess the much more common scenario is that for some reason they are more obvious to you than the developer(s). I didn't take time to look into your specific bugs, but differences in habits (especially when there are two or more ways to achieve the same thing) can mask some bugs---the developers may simply never do things in the way you do, and so they don't see the problem. And differences in hardware can account for most of the rest. Little things like monitors of different resolutions, for example. I recently switched to a larger external monitor and uncovered all sorts of graphical glitches (probably in the ATI driver, not KDE) that simply weren't there when I was using my laptop's native resolution (Kubuntu Lucid; probably many are fixed in Maverick, but I haven't yet upgraded out of fear of pulseaudio).
I'd bet that the average active developer's KDE is a bit smoother than the average user's KDE, simply because when they discover one of those problems they can fix it for their use case.
One of the things I see frequently is offers to buy hardware for the developers. I can't tell whether that's a helpful offer or not. On one hand it would make testing a lot easier and more direct, and result in faster bugfixes. On the other hand, if I were a developer, the last thing I'd want is 25 laptops littering my apartment and the obligation to build, install, and test myself on all of those. Testing on a wide array of hardware is sort of what the community is for, and seems like a fair exchange for the privilege of freedom.
Do any developers want to speak out on this point?
By tangent at Sat, 2010/12/04 - 11:43am
I'm very happy to test it for
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Prosecutors want Nacchio in court for sentencing
Federal prosecutors want imprisoned former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio to show up in Denver federal court when he receives a new sentence June 24.
Nacchio's presence at the hearing would help achieve some of the goals of sentencing, such as "having the defendant personally receive the
official expression of the condemnation of his conduct, showing confidence in the justness of the sentence, promoting respect for the law, promoting deterrence and treating victims fairly," Assistant U.S. attorney Kevin Traskos wrote in a court document filed Monday.
Nacchio's attorneys had previously waived his right to appear at the resentencing. Convicted on 19 counts of insider trading in 2007, Nacchio began serving a six-year prison term in April at a federal prison camp in Pennsylvania.
A jury found Nacchio guilty of illegally selling $52 million in Qwest stock in early 2001 based on material, insider information.
In July 2009, a federal appeals court ordered a new sentence for Nacchio, ruling that the trial judge miscalculated Nacchio's gains during the initial sentencing. The sentence is based, in part, on the amount of money Nacchio is determined to have illegally gained from having the insider information, which included warnings from senior executives that Qwest's financial health was deteriorating.
In waiving his right to physically appear at sentencing, Nacchio cited the case of Adelphia founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, who appeared at their resentencing hearing via videoconferencing from prison in 2008.
Prosecutors said the videoconferencing option is not available under 10th Circuit rules, which covers Colorado. They also noted that John Rigas was over 80 years old and had health problems, including bladder cancer.
John Rigas had his 15-year sentence for securities fraud and other charges cut to 12 years. Timothy Rigas had his reduced from 20 years to 17 years.
Traskos noted that Nacchio didn't give a reason for why he shouldn't attend the sentencing.
"Given the lack of any such reason, it might create the impression of
unfairness to allow the defendant to skip his sentencing," Traskos wrote in the court filing.
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300W LED Parking Lot Light
aspectLED's street lights are the perfect solution for government, municipal, and private streets and parking lots. These lights were rigorously engineered to provide a long-life trouble-free LED lighting solution at a cost effective price.
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Poly-carbonate lens
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When an advisor sets out on a mission in life or work, he or she must first find the answers to three essential questions.
So says Ted LeClair (left), who as a Navy Reserve commander as well as head of Natixis Global Asset Management's Advisor Academy spends plenty of time thinking about his own answers to those questions before he sets out on any mission.
"I use my Navy training a ton, and advisors want to know all about it," LeClair said in an interview with ThinkAdvisor last Thursday as he described the "Winning Formula" talk that he shares with thousands of advisors across the U.S. "I tell them that I'm all about setting goals, but you and your team have to have a mission first."
Certainly, LeClair's resume is an impressive one, with plenty of evidence that he has set and reached goals in his lifetime: A native of Scituate, Mass., he was commissioned through the NROTC program at Villanova University as an undergraduate before moving on to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master's degree in public administration in 2004. More recently, LeClair graduated in July 2012 from the U.S. Army War College, where he received a master's in strategic studies.
Yet LeClair believes that one of his most valuable experiences in life came from his failure to become a Navy SEAL because he was unable to pass the training course. (The failure rate is 75% to 80%, but LeClair says the failure rate for junior brokers at wirehouses such as Merrill and Morgan Stanley is even higher, at 90% in the first two years.) While coming to terms with his SEAL setback, LeClair asked himself why he didn't make the grade and ultimately realized that his failure came from lacking a sense of mission.
"With advisors, that sense of mission applies both to building a team or a durable portfolio. Advisors used to talk a lot about their pitch books, but they would usually lack a sense of purpose and meaning for the client," LeClair said.
As a senior vice president of Natixis' Client Solutions Group and director of the $783 billion global asset manager's Advisor Academy, LeClair delivers keynote presentations at major industry events and trains managers in the qualities of successful leadership.
For a "winning formula," read on to learn about the three questions that LeClair urges advisors to ask themselves:
1) Who Is My Nightingale? The Nightingale's Song, by Robert Timberg, is a true tale of five graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy — John McCain, John Poindexter, Bud McFarlane, Jim Webb and Oliver North — and how the Vietnam War shaped their characters.
The "nightingale" who sings his song and inspires these vets is President Ronald Reagan, a man who was straightforward in naming and following his mission, according to LeClair. The takeaway for advisors, he says, is that they should ask themselves: "Am I aware of my moment or not?"
2) What Is My Mission? Any mission begins with a thoughtful framing of goals, LeClair said. That includes setting the goals themselves, determining a "servant leadership" structure within a team and a preference for goal-based transformational change over merely transactional business dealing.
3) Am I a Lincoln? This third question is all about asking "do I have the will to get it done?," according to LeClair, who used the leadership of President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War as a prime example.
"All this comes back to a passion for learning and doing," LeClair said.
Perhaps not surprisingly, as a lifelong learner himself, LeClair is currently enrolled in Advance Joint Professional Military Education through the Joint Forces Staff College with an anticipated completion date of October.
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The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects. Please contribute a VoiceThread to help the Digital Library grow.
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Les Cantines du Monde by Rachel Sabre
In this activity, students research photos of typical school lunches from around the world. They select five photos and upload them to VoiceThread, name the country and describe each photo. Finally, students upload a photo of their own typical lunch and describe it. They discuss what foreign lunch they like best and why, along with what changes they could make to their own lunch to make it more healthy. This is an end of unit assessment.
The Use of Works of Art in a 2nd Semester German Course by Dagmar Jaeger
This VoiceThread shows how students can engage with a work of art in an active, personal and innovative way while practicing new vocabulary and grammar structures in the target language.
Getting to Know Berlin in a 1st Semester German Course by Dagmar Jaeger
Higher Ed students practice their German speaking skills by creating a collaborative "tour of Berlin".
Compare Them: Chinese Grammar Practice for 9-12
Chinese language students practice comparative grammar.
Using a Bilingual Spanish-English Dictionary by David Thompson
VoiceThread is a tool that allows instructors to create on-line learning tutorials that are both content-rich and interactive. Not only can tutorials made with VoiceThread help students see concepts and processes better, they let students actively engage the concepts / processes. Interactive tutorials made with VoiceThread ask students to practice what they learn outside of class, so the instructor can observe their practice, respond with feedback, or modify classroom teaching to address students' needs.
Les sons des animaux (Animal Sounds) by Audrey Misiano
This multi-age global VoiceThread is an example of how you can create a project that can keep on growing with more and more participants from around the world. There are voices of children from pre-school all the way up to about 10 years of age involved in this project. It was very fun for the children to hear the voices of other children as they were added.
Grades 3-6 - Hindi
This VoiceThread was created as a homework assignment for STARTALK summer Hindi immersion camp for kids in grades 3rd thru 6th. Kids loved this homework, as no writing was involved, they could use the technology and it gave them good reading, listening and speaking practice.
10th grade Chinese language practice from Lilia Hurteau
VoiceThread can be used to teach Chinese in a high school setting. Students have to repeat the words and then make sentences with the new vocabulary. They record themselves and they have to be creative.
9th grade Chinese language lesson from James Rolle
VoiceThread provides a medium for this character-by-character explanation of a commonly used phrase in Chinese that students can listen to and learn on their own time.
11th grade - French fluency and history from Hassina Taylor
Students found that responding to my questions orally via the Internet was a great way to improve on their fluency, and they found it very challenging to use the visual cues to find answers. They concentrated much better and retained information because it is a "hands-on"...
3rd grade language "Les Trois Petits Cochons" from Mme Smith
Using VoiceThread, students realized the power of voice as a tool of expression. All students in the class were able to contribute to this VoiceThread presentation of a play they had learned.
Higher-Ed, Studying Abroad in Ecuador, David Thompson
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7th Grade Spanish from Eve Millard
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Giclee Fine Art Printing on Fabric
Once the blocks were cut for a design, it was often first printed on paper as a 'strike off' or check on the pattern. These paper impressions were saved as a record of a mill's production or used to register the design at the London Patent Office.
During my visit to Winterthur last May, I was able to see a miniature quilt with a tiny Chintz Center Panel. ( see page 81 of 'Quilts in a Material World' by Linda Eaton). I was captivated! What was the origin of this small printed square?... furnishing goods (the texture of the square did not appear 'heavy') or dress goods?
My second day at Winterthur was spent in the library with sample books. There...in the last 1/2 hour of the day, in the last book....I found the answer!!..."Print sample book, 1795". In this slim volume filled with paper impression I found the answer to my question! Corner motifs on square cotton scarves or "mouchoirs". In several of the first pages there were the corner squares of a scarf border...and then in the middle of the book....a wide elaborate border had an oval motif place diagonally over the corner.
I have reproduced this small oval exactly... in terms of size ( 3 1/4" X 5 1/2" ) and color...even the 'weak' coloration of the roses in the upper left!


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Everyone must stay at home to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
You should only leave the house for very limited purposes:
Important - These reasons are exceptions – even when doing these activities, you should be minimising time spent outside of the home and ensuring you are 2 metres apart from anyone outside of your household.
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Do not leave your home if you have either:
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You can register the death if you are a relative, a witness to the death, a hospital administrator or the person making the arrangements with the funeral directors.
You can use the 'Register a Death' page on the gov.uk website that will guide you through the process. This will also explain the registration process for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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The wait is over. Man of Steel has finally exploded onto cinema screens, re-envisioning the iconic story of Clarke Kent aka Superman. He's just one of many superheroes we know and love…
Superman Returns!
Man of Steel has introduced a new generation to the epic story of Superman. With Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan – who happens to be of Irish descent – on board as executive producer and Zack Snyder directing, movie fans were expecting big things from Man of Steel. And they weren't disappointed.
In its opening weekend Man of Steel grossed an estimated $113.1 Million. English actor Henry Cavill (who frequented some of Ireland's castles during his time in The Tudors) plays the role of Kal El aka Clark Kent, and Kevin Costner plays the role of Jonathan Kent. Cavill does an impressive job donning the red cape. When you consider Cavill just barely missed out on playing James Bond to Daniel Craig and a role in the Harry Potter movies, you can't help but feel chuffed for him.
Irish superheroes
All this talk of Superman got us thinking about our own Irish superheroes: Cu Chulainn and Fionn Mac Cool. Both men were ancient heroes from the old legends of Ireland. Both were accomplishing heroic feats way before Superman was a twinkle in his father's super-eye.
Cu Chulainn: The Hound of Ulster
Sure, Superman can lift giant oilrigs and shoot red-hot laser beams out of his eyes, but can he hit a sliotar (think leather tennis ball, used in Gaelic sport of hurling) high into the air and catch it before it hits the ground? Ok, chances are he probably could. But he wouldn't do it with as much style as our Cu Chulainn. Originally known as Setanta, our hero earned his name Cu Chulainn (which translates into 'the hound of Chulainn') when he slayed a monstrous guard hound single-handedly…when he was still a young boy!
Cu Chulainn grew up in County Louth, near the ancient site of Newgrange. Older than both the pyramids of Egypt and England's Stonehenge, Newgrange is an ancient feat of architectural genius and well worth a visit – plus, it's a far sight better and easier to find than Krypton.
The young boy was said to have had super-human strength and great prowess on the battlefield. The story of his death is especially heroic. Mortally wounded and facing an enemy army, Cu Chulainn tied himself to a standing stone (still visible today!). The enemy army dared not take one step further while Cu Chulainn stood strong.
Although Cu Chulainn's lifeblood flowed from his body and he died, the enemy army still saw Cu Chulainn standing tall. They only realised he was dead when a raven landed on his shoulder and began to peck. You can see a beautiful bronze statue of Cu Chulainn's heroic final moments in Dublin's GPO on O'Connell Street in Dublin City.
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Keeping your MacCool!
Fionn MacCool was an another Irish giant superhero from County Antrim. His battle roars could be heard in neighbouring counties and he could lift one hundred men in one arm. Word reached Fionn of a Scottish giant by the name of Benandonner who challenged Fionn to mortal combat. Furious, Fionn began to forge a pathway from County Antrim across the Irish Sea to Scotland so he could smash his foe.
Turns out Benandonner was nearly twice the size of Fionn, so rather than fight, Fionn and his wife Oonagh outsmarted the Scottish giant and sent him scarpering back to Scotland.
The pathway that Fionn built became known as the Giant's Causeway and you can still see it today. Some 40,000 hexagonal columns rise and peter out into the ocean in a strange and fanciful way. Sure, some people will tell you it was intense volcanic pressures that created the Causeway, but we prefer the tale of two feuding giants. County Antrim goes hand in hand with fantasy stories. The worldwide TV smash hit Game of Thrones films there, too.
Though Superman is the hero of the moment, Cu Chulainn and Fionn MacCool have had their stories told for thousands of years. Will we still be talking about the Man of Steel in a few thousands years?
Only time will tell.
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"A perfectly serene space in which the experience of dining becomes a unique journey: the feeling of being on top of the world, yet clearly grounded by the interior architecture." says Claudio Silvestrin. "The design intends to give customers the feeling of being in a soulful, warm, earthy space yet suspend on the 32nd floor of the Shard. The emotional qualities of the nourishing, life-giving elements that evolve from water, fire and earth are beautifully composed in pure, clear, decisive geometric forms, thus bonding the abstract space configuration with the physical nature of materials, particularly the stone strength and endurance."
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Thursday, 4 December 2008
Little Mince Pie Cupcakes
18 comments:
- Anne said...
They sound so good could eat one right now!
- 4 December 2008 at 12:52
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
These are bookmarked!
- 4 December 2008 at 12:57
- Sweet Treats by Dani said...
they look great!
- 4 December 2008 at 13:09
- Rosie said...
I have to agree it's also my favourite time of the year for all the festive bakes and treats to make.
I can vouch that these little mince pie cupcakes are GOOD after you kindly passed on the recipe to me :)
Rosie x
- 4 December 2008 at 14:45
- Nickki said...
Hi Maria, these look so good!! I would never have thought of using mincemeat in cupcakes, what a lovely idea :)
- 4 December 2008 at 15:13
- Finla said...
I too love this time, it is so exciting looking forward to the chirstmas time especially baking.
Next year I am going to make home made mincemeat as we don't get here in the shops. Years and years ago when M&S was in brussels i used to buy from there.
So will just have to remember to make mincemeat next year earlier for december baking.
- 4 December 2008 at 15:25
- Nic said...
It's not fair that you should hog all these for yourself, come on, send some over!
- 4 December 2008 at 15:33
- Bea Roque said...
me ha encantado tu idea !!!! Tengo un bote de mincemeat, y no sabía que hacer con él!!!! Me has dejado con la boca abierta. Felicidadaes, tienen que estar riquísimos!!!. Besos. B
- 4 December 2008 at 15:59
- Sally said...
I shall make these. Thank you Goddess. MWA.
- 4 December 2008 at 21:34
- JillyB said...
Maria, these look so good. I can feel a baking session coming on!
- 5 December 2008 at 03:49
- Sherry Trifle - Lovely Cats said...
Definitely a "make soon" for me. They look delightful.
- 6 December 2008 at 04:26
- Kelly-Jane said...
I have been meaning to make mincemat muffins for a few years now, might try yours instead, they look lovely :)
- 7 December 2008 at 09:52
- MrsB said...
oh my these look adorable and what a great idea to make your own mincemeat - your so organised.
- 7 December 2008 at 18:55
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
What a good idea - I usually have mincemeat leftover in February and make a mincemeat sponge, I think these would be much nicer though.
In fact I think I'll make them before Christmas.
- 7 December 2008 at 20:58
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks for all the great comments.
I would love to hear feedback from those of you who make them, I am sure they will be a big hit!
- 7 December 2008 at 21:13
- Maggie said...
What a wonderful recipe and as you say a change from mince pies. They look delicious.
- 9 December 2008 at 09:46
I made these after drooling over your recipe - they are amazing !! Really light and moist, they were all gone in an hour !!
Congratulations on a lovely blog - your archives have kept me really busy.
Clare x
- 10 December 2008 at 09:58
I just baked them, they are really nice and light.Thank you!
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1 cup blackberries
2 inch knob ginger, chopped
1/2 teaspoon agave nectar
Place the ginger in a blender. Pulse until fairly smooth and liquidy. Add the remaining ingredients and pulse until smooth. Pour into ice pop molds, leaving a bit of headroom for expansion. Freeze until solid, about 6 hours or overnight.
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