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Let $S$ be a set of 2D points $(x,y)$ with positive real coordinates, i.e. $x,y>0$. An 2D rectangle $R$ is called an ${Origin-Rectangle}$ if it is decided by the origin $(0,0)$ and another point $(x,y)$ with $x,y>0$. Denote $S_R$ as the subset of points in $S$ covered by $R$, i.e. $S_R = S\cap R$.
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To help developing countries make sense of the multitude of funds and instruments available for climate finance a website, www.climatefinanceoptions.org,was launched at the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun.
Climate finance issues are high on the agenda in Cancun. The Climate Finance Options (CFO) web platform, envisioned as the go-to site for information on climate finance, will help developing countries in their efforts to identify critical sources of funding to combat climate change.
"Developing countries need access to information on potential sources of finance, inspiring best practice examples, research results, and tools for better investment decision making. The Climate Finance Options Platform provides a window to such information," said Warren Evans, director of the World Bank's Environment Department.
Within the framework of global negotiations on climate change, the World Bank Group and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have jointly developed the web-based knowledge platform in close cooperation with the UNFCCC Secretariat.
"For climate assistance to be most effective, it is critical for countries to access, sequence, and effectively integrate climate finance sources at the national level. UNDP is therefore pleased to be working in partnership to provide the CFO platform and assist countries to navigate the complex sources of finance through a one-stop shop," said Veerle Vandeweerd, director of the Environment and Energy Group at UNDP.
Developing countries often face an information gap as they search around for funds to support their climate change development needs. Those needs are demanding increasingly enormous amounts of financial flows — as much as US$100 billion for adaptation and US$175 million for mitigation per year in developing countries by 2030. Many developing countries are already taking action from their own scarce resources.
The CFO provides a number of services. It documents and analyzes the types of funds available, how much is available for what, the criteria for accessing them, how the monies are governed and administered. The platform also provides examples and prototypes of successful cases in which different funds were blended to get the maximum impact. And the CFO is a knowledge center with a wide range of literature and tools to enable project developers to analyze their own projects for better informed decisions.
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Recreation Groups Join Efforts to Challenge New USFS Planning Regulations
August 14, 2012 12:00 PM
Greg Mumm, BRC Executive Director
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POCATELLO, IDAHO (August 14, 2012) -- Recreation advocates yesterday joined with several other organizations in a legal challenge to new forest planning regulations promulgated by the U.S. Forest Service.
The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) and the California Association of 4Wheel Drive Clubs (Cal 4 Wheel) joined forces with the other forest product and multiple use groups in filing a lawsuit to require the Forest Service to modify its new planning rule to avoid its devastating impacts on the health of National Forests, recreational uses of the forests and communities located nearby.
The U.S. Forest Service formally adopted new National Forest Planning rules on April 9, 2012. The new regulations shift the agency away from a jobs and ecosystem approach. Instead, the planning rule would cement the National Forests into endless litigation over single species management; an approach that even the agency admits has failed repeatedly in the last three decades.
The complaint takes the Forest Service to task for elevating species viability, ecological sustainability, and ecosystem services as mandatory national forest management objectives, above the five statutorily prescribed multiple uses: outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish purposes. It also admonishes the Forest Service for requiring recreational opportunities to fit the agency's definition of "sustainable" in order to be allowed on national forest lands.
Greg Mumm, BRC's Executive Director said; "The new planning rules are actually more complex, costly, and procedurally burdensome than the regulations they replace. The agency has utterly failed to meet the guidelines of President Obama's directive calling for regulations to be cost effective, less burdensome, and more flexible. As written, this rule will tie the hands of forest managers and allow preservationists groups to bury any active management in endless litigation."
Mark Cave, President of Cal 4 Wheel expressed concern that the new regulations shift the Forest Service away from multiple use/sustained yield and impose a binding requirement for "ecological sustainability," which the agency doesn't define clearly. "The new rules are a recipe for analysis paralysis. It doesn't take any clairvoyance to predict never ending challenge from the environmental community." Cave said. .
"The wood products industry tried very hard to convince the Forest Service that these new rules work against forest health and jobs, both of which are vital to rural economies. We commented at every stage in the process. These rules ignore the multiple use mandate given to the agency by Congress. Instead, they focus on single species preservation," said Howard Hedstrom, President of Hedstrom Lumber in Grand Marais, Minnesota, and President of the Federal Forest Resource Coalition. "Going to court against the Forest Service was the last thing on our minds when we launched this coalition last year, but with the impact on jobs that will be caused by the planning rules, we had no other choice."
Parties in the lawsuit include: The Federal Forest Resource Coalition, Alaska Forestry Association, American Forest Resource Coalition, American Sheep Industry Association, California Association of 4 Wheel Drive Clubs, California Forestry Association, Minnesota Forest Industries, Minnesota Timber Producers Council, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Public Lands Council, and Resource Development Council for Alaska.
The Complaint can be found at http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/Dkt_1_Complaint.pdf
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And the Green Machine's take on the above suit:
For Immediate Release, August 14, 2012
Contact: Taylor McKinnon, (928) 310-6713
Industry Lawsuit Attacks Science, Sustainability on National Forests
WASHINGTON Livestock, timber and off-road industry groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday challenging the Obama administrations 2012 planning rule for U.S. national forests. The industry groups focused their attack on provisions that require ecological sustainability and use of the best available science in the Forest Services management of the American publics 193-million-acre national forest system.
The timber and livestock industries opposition to science and sustainability shows they care about only one thing when it comes to our national forests: their own profits, said Taylor McKinnon, public lands campaigns director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Even as new rules roll back longstanding protections for wildlife, industry keeps complaining about any limits being set on what they can extract from our national forests.
The suit, which was filed by groups including the American Forest Resource Council, National Cattlemens Beef Association and BlueRibbon Coalition, challenges new regulations implementing the National Forest Management Act that the Obama administration issued in January 2012. It alleges, among other things, that the Forest Service does not have the authority to require ecological sustainability and the use of best available science in the management of our national forests. The industry groups also challenged the Forest Service for requiring that recreation on our national forests be sustainable.
Januarys rule marked the Forest Services fourth attempt since 2000 to promulgate National Forest Management Act regulations; all three previous attempts were challenged and defeated in court by the Center and allies, who argued successfully that the Forest Service had failed to assess the impacts of the rule changes on the environment, including endangered species. Like the 2000, 2005 and 2008 rules, the Obama administrations planning rule weakens longstanding protections for biological diversity on national forests. Unlike the Centers earlier challenges, however, the industry groups directly challenge the substance of the new rule, for including common sense requirements regarding sound science and sustainability.
Congress enacted the National Forest Management Act in 1976 to guide management of the national forest system, which consists of 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands. In 1982, the Forest Service adopted national regulations to provide specific direction for activities such as logging, mining, livestock grazing and recreation. That rule included strong, mandatory protections for fish and wildlife, requiring the Forest Service to monitor and maintain viable populations.
*Center for Biological Diversity press release*
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Early this year the Forest Service issued final regulations that direct how each National Forest and Grassland produce Land Management Resource Plans, often called Forest Plans, which guide all management activities for 10 -15 years. The Forest Service has been trying to revise these regulations for over a decade, and the last two attempts under the Bush Presidency were struck down by the courts for violating the National Environmental Policy Act among other reasons. So under President Obama, we have a new set of rules that are certainly not perfect, but much improved compared to the last two versions. You can read more about the new rules and their ongoing saga in our Road RIPorter 2012 Spring Equinox issue.
So far no conservation groups have challenged the new rules, but last week a mishmash of timber, ranching and off road vehicle industry groups filed a lawsuit to stop the Forest Service from using the new regulations. Rather than going through all their ridiculous claims, a recent editorial from the Courthouse News Service sums it up nicely:
I see 5,000 lawsuits a week editing the Courthouse News page - stories of rape, murder, drugs, perversion, official corruption - revolting stuff.
But the most obnoxious lawsuit I saw this week was from the timber and cattle industries, which claimed that scientists exert "improper influence" on the U.S. Forest Service, by seeking ecological sustainability above industry profits in National Forests.
At the heart of the industry backed lawsuit is the notion that National Forests should only be managed to produce timber and provide water as directed by the 1897 Organic Act, which created the public land reserves that later became our national forests and grasslands. Evidently these litigants fail to realize forests must first be in a condition to actually produce the resources required in the Organic Act and the 1960 Multiple Sustained Yield Act before they can be utilized. Attacking the primacy of ecological sustainability is beyond short-sighted; its exemplary of the 'extract at all costs' mentality that trashed so much of our public lands and created the need for all those environmental laws decried by these same litigants.
Besides attacking ecological sustainability, the lawsuit also challenges other components of the rule:
that ecosystem services are a legitimate multiple use
that the Forest Service has to maintain viable populations of plants and animals
that the Forest Service uses the best available science; and
that the term sustainable recreation potentially precludes off road vehicles use.
These claims would be laughable if not for the chance that a sympathetic D.C. judge could go along with this nonsense and actually further delay the Forest Service from generating new plans; many of which are more than 20 years old.
*From Wildlands Center for the Prevention of Roads*
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Two responses to the above eco comments:
At last, a coalition of real-world interests has filed a lawsuit against the radical Eco-centric policies being foisted on the American public. For too long, the powerful and well-funded environmental lobby has been dictating land management policy through judicial fiat. Thanks to the environmental lobby's seemingly bottomless deep pockets, they have gone largely unchallenged for decades. It's high time someone challenged them at their own game.
Jim Williams.
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Ya think! The USFS has a Congressional mandate to manage for multiple use, and that is slowly being changed to manage for preservation. Multiple use means that the land be managed for the benefit of ALL the public. The exclusionists don't want that! The eco extremists have worked the emotions of the public with their "don't hurt bambi" tirades for much too long. I agree that our PUBLIC lands need to be managed with an eye towards taking care of the over all scope of things, but I do not agree with the elitist view that quiet recreation is the only good recreation. Excluding any group from our forests is wrong.
As for logging, grazing, and OHV recreation, it's about time the powers that be start looking hard at the contributions they make to rural economies, particularly in the west. Big Green has killed the timber industry and the areas it supported are dieing a slow death. OHV has become their hot button in many areas as well. Believe me, without OHV, Moab would go away. Oh, wait, that's what they want! I am tired of the "I know better than you" attitude. I resent being told I can't go on land I pay taxes to support just because of my chosen form of recreation.
I hope this lawsuit forces some common sense into all involved, and in the near future we can get a Forest Plan that that returns the management of our lands to some semblance of reality! Sorry, ecotopians, mankind is here for a while. Get over it...
Dave Walters
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All of the above was gleaned from just doing what I do! It's all out there, kids. All ya gotta do is look around...
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Taking A Closer Look At The Forest Service's New Rule
August 28, 2012 1:36 PM
Op-Ed by **** Coppock
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
-Thomas Jefferson
I have told you many times over the past few years to work with your local agency personnel on your land-use issues. Well, I am not so sure that is an avenue that will bring results today, due to the fact that the local Districts and Administrative officers are no longer free to make any decisions on their own. You may need to go to your elected representative to get your land-use issues resolved. But all hope is not gone, yet. We now have a chance to improve our access to public lands and change the direction of the government agencies with a change in leadership. I feel this is the only chance we will have as multiple-use recreational and resource concerned individuals to correct the problem of environmental endangered species directed resource management. We need to change our leadership on both the Federal and State level to protect our access to our public lands and our public resources judging from the condition of our forests.
With that said, I have--as has the BlueRibbon Coalition--informed you about the changes the Federal Government, namely the USDA Forest Service, wants to make with a new RULE. These changes have the look of simple improvements at first glance, but be wary of changes to simplify processes such as using Categorical Exclusions. The Forest Service believes it is appropriate to establish soil and water restoration categorical exclusions based on NEPA implementing regulations at 40 CFR § 1500.4(p) and 1500.5(k), which identify a Categorical Exclusion as a means to reduce paperwork and delays in project implementation. The fact is that the Rule is being written and changed in the inner circles of government agencies without input from the public, expecting the public then to turn the tide of wrong to right after the fact. The Fact is: Categorical Exclusions have no safeguards built into the process, and to allow dam removal under a CE ("remove, replace or modify water control structures to restore flows into natural channels and floodplains") without extensive study and safeguards is nuts! The same applies to ("restore non-system roads and trails to more natural conditions in order to stabilize habitat") stabilizing the habitat. I thought we were stabilizing the road? They don't do road reclamation with a shovel; they do it with heavy equipment, under contract. Reclaimed roads and trails become Roadless. Brian Hawthorne from BlueRibbon Coalition noted that, "The fact that the agency doesn't want any public involvement means the agency probably doesn't care about any potential recreational uses."
To this point a Chief US. District Judge, Lynn Winmill, has just determined that leaving roads open under the Payette National Forests Travel Management Plan causes erosion and harms fish. This ruling is against Valley County south of McCall, Idaho on the Payette National Forest. The judge said, "The agency review of policy, which effectively closed many roads, adequately considered the history and environmental impact of road usage in the national forest". The Judge went further in saying that, "many roads in the area were user built". Yes they were; with your tax dollars to remove timber. Resource removal roads are built by the timber companies with credits given them on the timber costs. Hence, less dollars for the timber an additional tax on the taxpayer. The intent of leaving these timber haul roads open was for the public to drive and enjoy their national Forests.
Valley County was joined by recreational groups and private citizens in its opposition to the Federal Forest Travel Management Plan, which they contend was implemented without sufficient public process and socioeconomic study. Judge Winmill, however, went on to say that, "given the Forest Service's undisputed findings that designating a limited number of roads would be unrealistically expansive and harm the environment. The agency was not obligated to consider designation of an even greater number of roads. Leaving many roads open was found by the Forest Service to cause erosion, impair the restoration of water quality in streams and adversely affect many fisheries." Now, you know why your forest roads are in such bad shape. Your federal agencies have a legal plan to restrict motorized recreation without public comment. Do you also know that any reclaimed road allows the area to be considered "Roadless?" It then is eligible for Wilderness classification? It makes me very uncomfortable when an agency wins by not doing its job.
As the man said, "are you ready for a change yet?" Changing the present administration and reducing government is the only way to protect your access to public lands. I suggest if you are not in agreement, go trade in your snowmobile, motorcycle, and ATV on a Harley and hit the highway.
"National Forest are for the use of all the people."
-Gifford Pinchot, 1907
*From BRC Op-Ed page*
Dave Walters
Tri-Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
WOHVA Board member
It's a Scout thing
I'm really starting to get a hoot out of some of the arguments over USFS methodology. On "our side", the stance is that they're managing for closure, and trying to kick everyone out. This because the "greens" have taken over, or their afraid they'll get sued, or whatever...
On "the dark side", it's all about all the USFS is doing is subterfuge to get more timber cut, they're ignoring science, and any number of crimes against nature.
So, this would almost be humorous, if it didn't impact so many people and so much land. The timber industry is barely on life support because of the strident bleatings of ecohacks like the Center for Biological Diversity, and what can one say about something called the Center for the Prevention of Roads. Really? Prevention?! To the last outfit's "credit", they do have one staffer a guy can at least have a pleasant conversation with. A lady in Eugene named Sarah Peters who, believe it or don't, shares my notion of what the Oregon Dunes need, and is actually working with the local ATV group on finding common ground to restore the Dunes.
Anyway, guess I just needed to get a few things out there where I could look at 'em, instead of letting them, as Lee said yesterday, "make my head hurt".
*From Dave Walters*
Dave Walters
Tri-Cities Peak Putters
Land Use Coordinator
WOHVA Board member
It's a Scout thing
Are you getting the flat forehead syndrom yet dave? Its a very frustrating. Life trying to be involved in the political side of our sport these days. Keep up the good fight.
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It's Zucchini Season: Grilled Zucchini, Zucchini Fries, and Zucchini Pancakes (Recipes)
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Fritters and fries: Two tasty ways to use the versatile zucchini
A friend recently asked me to pick her zucchini while she was away, to keep the plants producing. I forgot all about it until the day before she was due back. Uh-oh — anyone who's grown squash knows how they go from cute to monster practically overnight. I dashed to her garden to cart off any huge ones so that she wouldn't find out what an unreliable friend I am. There were eight, three of them at the OMG stage.
That old joke about having to lock your car in August so the neighbors won't put zucchini in it has some truth where I live. Almost everyone has runaway squash in their garden, including me. But I hate waste, so dealing with what seems like several hundred pounds of zukes is a challenge I intend to meet. One monster went to a neighbor who makes wonderful zucchini bread. We've used a couple of not-too-big ones cut in half lengthwise, seeds scooped out, stuffed and baked; and I've sauteed another big one with onions, garlic, tomatoes and basil to freeze and use as pasta sauce in winter. There are still several reproaching me when I walk into the kitchen, but I'll get to them.
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Grilled Zucchini
Brush thick slices or wedges with oil, grill for a few minutes on each side, then sprinkle them with lemon zest and coarse salt
Oven-baked Zucchini-Parmesan Fries
- 2 medium zucchini
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup milk
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese
- ½ breadcrumbs, seasoned with salt and pepper
- Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Cut zucchini into three-inch sticks. Whisk together the egg and milk in one bowl, and mix the breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese in another.
- Dip the zucchini sticks in the egg mix, coat with breadcrumbs, and bake on a cookie sheet in a single layer for about 25 minutes until golden.
Beware: the fries are highly addictive.
Zucchini Pancakes
- 1½ pounds zucchini, coarsely grated
- About 1 cup scallions or chives, chopped small
- 6 ounces feta cheese
- ½ cup chopped fresh mint
- ½ cup chopped parsley
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- ½ cup flour
- Let the grated zucchini drain in a colander for an hour or two. Pat dry, and put it in a bowl. Crumble in the feta cheese, and add the scallions, herbs, and eggs. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Sift the flour on top and stir in.
- Heat a large, lightly oiled skillet. Drop in spoonfuls of the batter, spreading it thin to make 3-inch pancakes. Cook a couple of minutes on each side, until golden.
- Serve as an appetizer or side dish. If you want to dress them up, garnish the pancakes with yogurt or sour cream, or a lemony basil aioli.
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If you want to deliver a web application (or just a web page) as a part of a client application,
you can do it using
WebView. The
WebView class is an
extension of Android's
View class that allows you to display web pages as a
part of your activity layout. It does not include any features of a fully developed web
browser, such as navigation controls or an address bar. All that
does, by default, is show a web page.
A common scenario in which using
WebView is helpful is when you want to
provide information in your app that you might need to update, such as an end-user agreement
or a user guide. Within your Android app, you can create an
that contains a
WebView, then use that to display your document that's
hosted online.
Another scenario in which
WebView can help is if your app provides
data to the user that
always requires an Internet connection to retrieve data, such as email. In this case, you might
find that it's easier to build a
WebView in your Android app that
shows a web page with all
the user data, rather than performing a network request, then parsing the data and rendering it in
an Android layout. Instead, you can design a web page that's tailored for Android devices
and then implement a
WebView in your Android app that loads the web
This document shows you how to get started with
WebView and how to do some
additional things, such as handle page navigation and bind JavaScript from your web page to
client-side code in your Android app.
Adding a WebView to your app
To add a
WebView to your app, you can either include the
<WebView> element in your activity layout, or set the entire Activity window
as a
WebView in
Adding a WebView in the activity layout
To add a
WebViewto your app in the layout, add the following code to your
activity's layout XML file:
<WebView android:id="@+id/webview" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" />
To load a web page in the
loadUrl(). For example:
val myWebView: WebView = findViewById(R.id.webview) myWebView.loadUrl("http://www.example.com")
WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); myWebView.loadUrl("http://www.example.com");
Adding a WebView in onCreate()
To add a
WebView to your app in an activity's
onCreate() method
instead, use logic similar to the following:
val myWebView = WebView(activityContext) setContentView(myWebView)
WebView myWebView = new WebView(activityContext); setContentView(myWebView);
Then load the page with:
Or load the URL from an HTML string:
// Create an unencoded HTML string // then convert the unencoded HTML string into bytes, encode // it with Base64, and load the data. val unencodedHtml = "'%23' is the percent code for '#' " val encodedHtml = Base64.encodeToString(unencodedHtml.toByteArray(), Base64.NO_PADDING) myWebView.loadData(encodedHtml, "text/html", "base64")
// Create an unencoded HTML string // then convert the unencoded HTML string into bytes, encode // it with Base64, and load the data. String unencodedHtml = "'%23' is the percent code for '#' "; String encodedHtml = Base64.encodeToString(unencodedHtml.getBytes(), Base64.NO_PADDING); myWebView.loadData(encodedHtml, "text/html", "base64");
Note: There are restrictions on what this HTML can do.
loadData() and
for more info about encoding options.
Before this will work, however, your app must have access to the Internet. To get
Internet access, request the
INTERNET permission in your
manifest file. For example:
<manifest ... > <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> ... </manifest>
That's all you need for a basic
WebView that displays a web page.
Additionally, you can customize your
WebViewby modifying the following:
- Enabling fullscreen support with
WebChromeClient. This class is also called when a
WebViewneeds permission to alter the host app's UI, such as creating or closing windows and sending JavaScript dialogs to the user. To learn more about debugging in this context, read Debugging Web Apps.
- Handling events that impact content rendering, such as errors on form submissions or
navigation with
WebViewClient. You can also use this subclass to intercept URL loading.
- Enabling JavaScript by modifying
- Using JavaScript to access Android framework objects that you have injected into a
Using JavaScript in WebView
If the web page you plan to load in your
WebView uses JavaScript, you
also create interfaces between your app code and your JavaScript code.
Enabling JavaScript
WebView by default. You can enable it
through the
WebSettings attached to your
WebView.You can retrieve
WebSettings with
getSettings(), then enable
JavaScript with
For example:
WebSettings provides access to a variety of other settings that you might
find useful. For example, if you're developing a web application
that's designed specifically for the
WebView in your Android app,
then you can define a
custom user agent string with
setUserAgentString(), then query the custom user agent in your web page to verify that the
client requesting your web page is actually your Android app.
Binding JavaScript code to Android code
When developing a web application that's designed specifically for the
WebView in your Android
app, you can create interfaces between your JavaScript code and client-side Android code.
For example, your JavaScript code can call a method in your Android code to display a
Dialog, instead of using JavaScript's
alert() function.
To bind a new interface between your JavaScript and Android code, call
addJavascriptInterface(), passing it
a class instance to bind to your JavaScript and an interface name that your JavaScript can call to
access the class.
For example, you can include the following class in your Android app:
/** Instantiate the interface and set the context */ class WebAppInterface(private val mContext: Context) { /** Show a toast from the web page */ @JavascriptInterface fun showToast(toast: String) { Toast.makeText(mContext, toast, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show() } }
public class WebAppInterface { Context mContext; /** Instantiate the interface and set the context */ WebAppInterface(Context c) { mContext = c; } /** Show a toast from the web page */ @JavascriptInterface public void showToast(String toast) { Toast.makeText(mContext, toast, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } }
Caution: If you've set your
to 17 or higher, you
must add the
@JavascriptInterface annotation to any method that you want
available to your JavaScript (the method must also be public). If you do not provide the
annotation, the method is not accessible by your web page when running on Android 4.2 or
In this example, the
WebAppInterface class allows the web page to create a
Toast message, using the
showToast() method.
You can bind this class to the JavaScript that runs in your
WebView with
addJavascriptInterface() and
name the interface
Android. For example:
val webView: WebView = findViewById(R.id.webview) webView.addJavascriptInterface(WebAppInterface(this), "Android")
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); webView.addJavascriptInterface(new WebAppInterface(this), "Android");
This creates an interface called
Android for JavaScript running in the
WebView. At this point, your web application has access to the
WebAppInterface class. For example, here's some HTML and JavaScript that creates a toast
message using the new interface when the user clicks a button:
<input type="button" value="Say hello" onClick="showAndroidToast('Hello Android!')" />
There's no need to initialize the
Android interface from JavaScript. The
WebView automatically makes it
available to your web page. So, at the click of the button, the
function uses the
Android interface to call the
Note: The object that is bound to your JavaScript runs in another thread and not in the thread in which it was constructed.
Caution: Using
addJavascriptInterface() allows
JavaScript to control your Android app. This can be a very useful feature or a dangerous
security issue. When the HTML in the
WebView is untrustworthy (for example,
part or all of the HTML
is provided by an unknown person or process), then an attacker can include HTML that executes
your client-side code and possibly any code of the attacker's choosing. As such, you should not use
addJavascriptInterface() unless
you wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript that appears in your
WebView. You
should also not allow the user to
navigate to other web pages that are not your own, within your
(instead, allow the user's
default browser application to open foreign links—by default, the user's web browser
opens all URL links, so be careful only if you handle page navigation as described in the
following section).
Handling page navigation
When the user clicks a link from a web page in your
WebView, the default
behavior is
for Android to launch an app that handles URLs. Usually, the default web browser opens and
loads the destination URL. However, you can override this behavior for your
so links open within your
WebView. You can then allow the user to navigate
backward and forward through their web page history that's maintained by your
Note: For security reasons, the system's browser app doesn't share its application data with your app.
To open links clicked by the user, provide a
WebViewClient for your
WebView, using
setWebViewClient(). For example:
val myWebView: WebView = findViewById(R.id.webview)
webViewClient = WebViewClient()
WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
That's it. Now all links the user clicks load in your
If you want more control over where a clicked link loads, create your
WebViewClient that overrides the
shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method. For example:
private class MyWebViewClient : WebViewClient() {
override fun
shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view: WebView?, url: String?): Boolean {
if (Uri.parse(url).host == "www.example.com") {
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)).apply {
return true
private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
public boolean
shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if ("www.example.com".equals(Uri.parse(url).getHost())) {
// This is my website, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false;
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
return true;
Then create an instance of this new
WebViewClient for the
val myWebView: WebView = findViewById(R.id.webview)
webViewClient = MyWebViewClient()
WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
Now when the user clicks a link, the system calls
shouldOverrideUrlLoading(), which checks whether the URL host matches a specific domain (as defined
above). If it does match, then the method returns false in order to not override the URL
loading (it allows the
WebView to load the URL as usual). If the URL host
does not match, then an
Intent is created to
launch the default Activity for handling URLs (which resolves to the user's default web
Navigating web page history
When your
WebView overrides URL loading, it automatically accumulates a
history of visited web
pages. You can navigate backward and forward through the history with
goBack() and
For example, here's how your
Activity can use the device Back button
to navigate backward:
override fun
onKeyDown(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean { // Check if the key event was the Back button and if there's history if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && myWebView.
canGoBack()) { myWebView.goBack() return true } // If it wasn't the Back key or there's no web page history, bubble up to the default // system behavior (probably exit the activity) return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event) }
@Override public boolean
onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { // Check if the key event was the Back button and if there's history if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && myWebView.
canGoBack()) { myWebView.
goBack(); return true; } // If it wasn't the Back key or there's no web page history, bubble up to the default // system behavior (probably exit the activity) return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); } }
canGoBack() method returns
true if there is actually web page history for the user to visit. Likewise, you can use
canGoForward() to check whether there is a forward history. If you don't
perform this check, then once the user reaches the end of the history,
goBack() or
goForward() does nothing.
Handling device configuration changes
During runtime, activity state changes occur when
a device's configuration changes, such as when users rotate the device or dismiss an input method
editor (IME). These changes will cause a
WebView object's activity to be destroyed and
a new activity to be created, which also creates a new
object that will load the destroyed object's URL.
To modify your activity's default behavior, you can change how it handles
changes in your manifest. To learn more about handling configuration
changes during runtime, read
Handling configuration changes.
Managing windows
By default, requests to open new windows are ignored. This is true whether they
are opened by JavaScript or by the target attribute in a link. You can customize your
WebChromeClient to provide your
own behavior for opening multiple windows.
Caution: To keep your app more secure, it's best to prevent
popups and new windows from opening. The safest way to implement this behavior is to pass
"true" into
setSupportMultipleWindows() but not override the
onCreateWindow() method, which
setSupportMultipleWindows() depends on.
Keep in mind, however, that this logic also prevents any page that uses
in its links from loading.


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Several years ago on one of our comp days our counselor gave us all a small stone. We were told to hold that stone in our hand ALL DAY LONG....when we ate, when we went to the restroom, when we worked on lessons. Some teachers put theirs down quickly or forgot where they put it down. Some of us kind of fussed about how hard this was. We later realized that these stones are the burdens are kiddos carry with them into our classrooms each and every day...except they cannot put them down nor do they leave them at the door like we might expect them to.
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They're desperate for hope, darkness clouding their view
They're looking to you
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So love them like Jesus, love them like Jesus
You don't need the answers to all of life's questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
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Newtown United was born in the agony and confusion that followed the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The group of residents, including parents of children who survived, held its first meeting two days after the shooting as news teams from around the globe scrambled for reaction to the killings.
Group leaders are working to ensure that Newtown United grows and gains power long after the news trucks leave. Before the week was over, leaders had formed an executive team and started the process of becoming a nonprofit organization. Some members had gone to Washington to speak against gun violence.
The group, organizers said, will use the traditional media, social media, outreach to churches, schools, government agencies and all other avenues to make "Newtown" a rallying cry against gun violence.
"We are just a few concerned citizens with day jobs trying to ensure that what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary marks the high-water mark for gun violence in this nation," Newtown United spokesman Rob Cox wrote in an email. "Ultimately we hope to provide a platform for the voices of the families most affected by this horrific event."
Many around the nation have offered help. The "outpouring," Cox said, "from people, companies, advertising and PR firms offering their pro-bono services and expertise has been absolutely overwhelming."
Cox said the group likely will hire a paid staff, with headquarters in the Sandy Hook section. The group has a mission statement: "We stand with the children, the families, the teachers and the community touched by the massacre of innocent lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. We are united with the country to drive national efforts to turn the tide on gun violence. We are dedicated to ensuring the senseless act of violence that occurred in Newtown is never repeated."
The organization of many volunteers, however, is still a work in progress.
At a recent meeting at the Booth Library on Main Street, the passion, energy and anger in the audience was palpable. But the group's purpose was not clear to many. People asked what Newtown United is and what is its message.
"We are flying by the seat of our pants," Lee Shull, one of the original organizers, acknowledged.
"It's time to push!" one man said.
"We're being too nice," said another, who described himself as a New York City transplant.
There was talk of banning all guns, but Shull said that would raise a wall with responsible gun owners and stifle the group's broad goal of sensible reforms.
"We can't demonize gun owners," he said. "Let's face it — guns are part of our culture."
Another man who has emerged as a prominent voice in the group is Andrei Nikitchyuk, an immigrant from the Ukraine whose 8-year-old son, Bear, was in the school hallway when Adam Lanza burst in and started shooting. A teacher pulled Bear and another student into her room.
"I think that many people will help us," said Andrei Nikitchyuk, who works in finance for a large information technology company. "What we have now is an outrage, and we are trying to translate that … shellshock into something positive."
"We have inexhaustible resolve," the 47-year-old father of three said, "and we as a group just need to channel it to change the world."
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and and Sen.-elect Chris Murphy attended the meeting Dec. 19 and advised the group to feed the fire while public sentiment is strong and raw.
"There's been a seismic change in the public consciousness and the political landscape," Blumenthal said.
He and Murphy will use the nation's sorrow and resolve for change to fight for a ban on assault weapons, more comphrehensive background checks and other gun control measures, Blumenthal said. But he told the people packed into the library's community room that they, too, will have to fight. The gun lobby and its supporters in Congress, Blumenthal and Murphy said, are waiting for the spotlight on Newtown to fade.
"We're going to need your courage and strength," Blumenthal said.
The message from political leaders and others, Cox said, "has become very clear — act now, grow your numbers, get to Washington."
But the question remains — can another mass shooting be prevented? After all, Sandy Hook Elementary School was locked on that horrific morning; Lanza shot his way in. The National Rifle Association has called for armed guards in every school.
"I will say I feel safe in Sandy Hook and in Newtown," said Len Strocchia of Newtown, whose daughter, now 13, attended Sandy Hook Elementary School. "I think the school was safe. I don't think there's much you can do to stop somebody hell-bent on entering a school and committing murders. I would not want an elementary school turned into a bulletproof prison for our kids."
Gratitude is the overwhelming sentiment among all Sandy Hook Elementary parents whose children survived the massacre. Eric Weiss said his son, a second-grader, was in a classroom near one of the rooms where children were killed. The boy listened to his teacher and escaped unharmed.
"We're forever in their debt," Weiss, who also has a daughter in afternoon kindergarten, said of the school staff. "You can't ask more from somebody. You put your children in someone else's custody, you would hope they would react the way our teachers did."
"I'm just very appreciative that my children are with me," he said.
The voices of parents whose children were killed would be a powerful addition to Newtown United, but Cox said it's too early to approach them.
"We are here for the families," said Cox, the editor of Reuters' financial commentary website, Breakingviews.com. "We're building a structure and a platform for the families when they are ready to express their views about how to meaningfully reverse the tide of gun violence."
"We know," he said, "that our pain is nothing compared with theirs, so we can focus our energy to make Newtown count for something."
Newtown United members sign communications to each other with the letters FTF, "For the Families."
Visit the group's facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/NewtownUnited.


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text: Now I have to admit, out of all characters in all of the Motu I think Kayo is the most boring of them all. I know nothing about this guy, what his special abilities are except hes a excellent space pilot. Anyone know anything else about this guy. He was one of three Galactic Guardians that got an upgrade from the Blacksmith of Cerelus, getting 2 shoulder mounted rockets. If they were to create this character, I would like to see him with that upgrade. For me he should be the last Character made from the existing NA Characters.


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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
how to help Chemo Duck (& more duck bentos too!)
My attempt to recreate the darling Gabe's Chemo Duck logo in bento-format...
This bento is packed in the bottom tier of a two-tier Kotobuki bento box. It is made with a round sandwich on the bottom and a tortilla on top. The yellow duck is made from candy melts and a ducky candy mold (in other words, Lu had fun in the kitchen! :p). I added a little duck bill and eye accent using food-safe markers. The letters are made of fruit leather. :)
The top tier of the bento box holds whole grain quackers, cheddar cheese, salami "flowers", cucumber hearts and a heart dish of sunflower kernels.
Quack quack!! :)
Gabe's Chemo Duck program is a non-profit organization. When a request is received at Chemo Duck headquarters for a Duck, the fluffy friend and educational materials are sent right off - at no cost to the family. Chemo Ducks are also available for free to children with cancer at over 60 hospitals nationwide.
If you or someone you know has a child coping with cancer, please email Lu at firstname.lastname@example.com for a Chemo Duck! It is Lu and her son, Gabe's, mission to put a Chemo Duck in the arms of every cancer kid they can! :)
Currently Gabe's Chemo Duck program depends on donations, proceeds from fundraisers (such as bake sales and "fun runs"), and occasional grant money to keep sending Chemo Ducks to kids with cancer.
It costs $25 to put a Chemo Duck in the arms of a child.
This month alone the program has received requests for thirty ducks - that's $750 in Chemo Ducks!
If you would like to help Gabe's My Heart put Chemo Ducks, {Huggable Hope}, in the arms of more kids, you can make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation BY CLICKING HERE.
As a way of saying thank you for your donation, Chemo Duck and I have put together this little prize pack that will be sent to one lucky ducky person!
The prize pack comes in this spiffy back-sack. (ooooh, what will you find inside??)
Lots of goodies in there!!!
- Gabe's Chemo Duck t-shirt (very cute, Ethan has one that he wears to soccer practice almost every week!)
- duck-shaped silly bands (there are more than 2, but I couldn't get the others to lay down nicely for the picture!)
- super cute ducky temporary tatoos
- Chemo Duck pins (3 shown, but there are more like 10 inside!)
- an insulated lunchbag with an embroidered Chemo Duck logo (CUTE!)
- two-tiered Kotobuki duck face bento box!!! (same as shown in the bentos above!)
- Wilton duck cookie cutter
The way this will work... for every $1 donated you receive 1 entry for this prize pack. I will keep track of this on a spreadsheet. So if Strawberry Shortcake wants to sponsor a whole duck and donates $25, I will list spots 1-25 on my spread sheet for Strawberry Shortcake. Then if Rainbow Brite donates $2, and Wonder Woman donates $5, spots #26-#27 will be labeled for Rainbow Brite, and Wonder Woman will be listed for spots #28-#32 on the spreadsheet. One number will be chosen by random via Random.org and the corresponding name on my spreadsheet will be the winner. :)
I think we will run this for the rest of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - so that means I'll stop adding names to the spreadsheet on September 30. Of course you can continue submitting donations to Gabe's Chemo Duck program for as long as you like. :) I will announce the winner of the prize pack on October 1.
If you would like to donate but do not want to be included in the drawing for the prize pack you can indicate that information in the box that says "Are you sponsoring a Chemo Duck for a specific child? If so, Please enter the child's name and mailing address below". Or if you wish to be included for the prize pack but do not want your name mentioned you may indicate that information in that box too.
How many Chemo Ducks do you think we can sponsor together this month? Four? Five? If every visitor of this blog on an average day donated $1 we would have enough to supply 100 ducks to kids with cancer! :)
Chemo Ducks, Huggable Hope. It's a good thing. :)
11 comments:
- Mom_Of_Three said... [Reply to comment]
WOW! What an awesome charity!! And, a cute bento ;) We have a St. Jude affiliat hospital here where I live, and I can imagine what a bless it must be for those kids to get their ducky! Thank you for bringing this charity to the spotlight!!
- September 15, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Stef plus 3 said... [Reply to comment]
What a wonderful idea <3 I'll be back to donate for sure tomorrow (payday :) )
- September 15, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Vanessa said... [Reply to comment]
Hi, I came across your website several weeks ago and have been following your daily bentos and enjoying them immensely! I just "adopted" a chemo duck and wanted to say what a meaningful program and how wonderful of you to help spread the word.
- September 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- Stef plus 3 said... [Reply to comment]
I just donated $10 (and an extra 30 cents so they get my whole $10) :)
What a wonderful program!!! I'm looking into becoming an oncology nurse once I'm done w/ school so this is a near and dear issue to me!
- September 16, 2010 at 7:47 PM
- janellemc said... [Reply to comment]
As the mom of a 5 year old who is a Stage 4 Rhabdomyosarcoma (muscle tumor) survivor, I thank you for your efforts and darling reminders of the importance of finding a cure and aiding those that are sick.
- September 17, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- janellemc said... [Reply to comment]
Oops. I made a donation but forgot to put in the box that I'd like to be included in the drawing.
- September 17, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
janellemc, the "default" is to be included for the drawing - so you're on the spreadsheet! :)
Thank you so much for donating!!! :)
- September 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- RootsAndWingsCo said... [Reply to comment]
Amazing! I tweeted this and have scheduled one of your other chemo duck posts to be tweeted each day this week! Beautiful bentos for a beautiful cause! Sick kids is just NOT right!
- September 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Amy said... [Reply to comment]
Melissa, when I donate today, do I need to include a specific child?
- September 21, 2010 at 2:11 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Amy, you do not need to include a specific child's name. :)
- September 21, 2010 at 2:13 PM
- Teena said... [Reply to comment]
I love your blog and have been following it for quite some time. You inspired me to start doing more creative lunches for my 7 year old and let me tell you she loves it. This is an awesome cause and I happily just sponsored a duck. Keep up the amazing work you do! God Bless, Teena
- September 22, 2010 at 9:00 AM


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By Karin Calloway
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If you've ever spent the wee hours flipping channels, you surely came across an infomercial or two promising weight loss or beautiful skin overnight. While the allure of going to sleep and waking up thin or "more radiant" sounds good at 2 a.m., in truth, not much will happen except a charge being placed on your credit card bill.
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It's the MaxFunDrive, April 1st - 12th! Visit maximumfun.org/donate to find out more and support this show.
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Erik Adams and Claire Zulkey from The AV Club join us this week to talk about what you should be watching this spring. Erik's pick is Happy Endings, a great sitcom from ABC with undeservedly less-than-great ratings. And speaking of ABC sitcoms: Claire's recommendation is Suburgatory, a single-camera sitcom about a couple of Manhattanites who make the big move upstate.
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Lily Tomlin has a remarkable range as an actress and comedian. Whether she's playing a precocious six-year-old on Laugh-In or a pill-popping sixty-six year old on HBO's Eastbound and Down; whatever character she plays, Lily inhabits her roles in a way that few performers can.
Now, she appears in the new film Admission, playing a tough second-wave feminist mom to an uptight college admissions officer played by Tina Fey. Though she may not have as much screen time as Fey, Tomlin made the most of the role (and insisted on the proper accoutrements, including a fake tattoo of founding feminist Bella Abzug).
Lily talks to us about shaping her role in Admission, the moment that she decided she wanted to be a professional actor...and yes, a certain YouTube-famous confrontation (link NSFW) with I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell.
Admission is in theaters now.
But wait! There's more! Click here for an extended interview with Lily Tomlin for talk about how she develops her characters, coming out of the closet as a performer, and why her main priority as a comedian isn't getting laughs. And don't forget to share this one with your friends – it's too good to keep to yourself!
FOUND Magazine co-creator and editor Davy Rothbart is back again to share more pieces of lost and found ephemera: receipts, notes, and letters with stories behind them that we can only imagine...or laugh at.
Davy's new book of personal essays is called My Heart Is an Idiot. FOUND Magazine is on its eighth issue and posts new finds all the time on their website. If you've got a cool find, be sure to share it with them.
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When Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a kid, he had a plan: he wanted to be an astrophysicist. But the adults around him had other plans. They thought he'd make a great athlete. But Neil stuck to his guns, and now he's one of the most famous astrophysicists in the world – heck, one of the only famous astrophysicists in the world.
But how did he persevere? Or, to use his words: why was it that he took the "path of most resistance" when there were plenty of other, easier paths around him? Ultimately, it was his passion for the universe itself that kept him going.
Neil joins us to talk about why he thinks the universe is more awesome than anything else...and to maybe try to help Jesse get over his fear of outer space.
Neil is the host of StarTalk, director of the Hayden Planetarium and the author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, out now in paperback.
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This week, the big thing on Jesse's mind is baseball, specifically opening day – not just for the excitement of the game itself, but for the new beginnings it brings.
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Special thanks this week to Jalen Warshawsky and No Color for providing the music played during our pledge breaks. You can find those songs and more at the Free Music Archive.
What is the name of the beat that plays at the end of the Suburgatory recommendation?
It's not commercially available, unfortunately.


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Day 314: White on White Purée ♥
Today's vegetable recipe: Cauliflower and turnips cooked and mashed to create low-carb and low-calorie "mashed potatoes". Weight Watchers 1 point.
~ recipe updated 2008 ~
When I first made this cauliflower and turnip purée in 2006, I called it 'another mushy-textured, bland-looking but heavenly-tasting purée'.
Since then, it's become a real favorite, especially when I want to serve a low-carb or diabetic replacement for mashed potatoes. The reaction at my table? "I wouldn't know these aren't mashed potatoes unless you told me." That's especially true when they're served with meat and gravy, say, versus just mashed potatoes. These are a real winner, all year-round, for all foodies.
WHITE on WHITE PURÉE
Hands-on time: 20 minutes
Time to table: 35 minutes
Makes 4 cups
Time to table: 35 minutes
Makes 4 cups
Salted water to cover
1 head cauliflower, trimmed, cored, cut into florets
1/2 pound turnips (2 medium), peeled and chopped
1 slice lemon (optional)
1 bay leaf (optional)
1/4 cup fat-free half 'n' half
1 tablespoon fresh herbs (sage is excellent)
Dash of Tabasco
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter
Bring the water to boil. Add the cauliflower and turnips as they're prepped, then the lemon and bay leaf. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to MEDIUM and cook until soft but not mushy. Drain and transfer to a food processor (see TIPS) and puree. Add half 'n' half, herbs, Tabasco, seasoning and butter. If the puré is slightly watery, return to the dry cooking pan and cook for a few minutes to cook off the excess liquid. Serve and enjoy!
Do use a food processor. It's too big a job for an immersion blender. A hand mixer doe work but bits of cauliflower fly all over.
I'm learning the do's and don't's of fat-free half'n'half. It's a miracle product for vegetables so long as it's needed for richness not binding. This means it works great added to purées but doesn't work in scalloped potatoes.
MORE RECIPES for MASHED VEGETABLES
~ Creamy Carrot Purée ~
~ Mashed Potatoes & Carrots ~
~ Curried Squash ~
~ more recipes for puréed and mashed vegetables ~
~ more cauliflower recipes ~
~ more turnip recipes ~
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