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The original Elsword
Overall usefulness
Pretty crappy at combos, the character also knocks down enemies down a lot too, mostly not a team player.
- After awhile, you'd know how to do combos without knocking him down
- When you learn that. gaining MP is much faster, making you one of the faster mp gainers for first job
- Being short, believe it or not, being short is very good, there are some bosses that will lose around 1/3 of their move set because they just can't hit you with it, though that is still only viable for maybe 4 bosses.
- Has two skills for super armor mobs and when bosses gain limited superarmor, great 3rd Magic Skill, actually better than his later jobs' third skill.
- No range moves, meaning you're going to get hit a lot later on, also really bad against super armor mobs.
- Crappy physical skills in comparison to magical attacks
Every Elsword attack(not skill) is in here Elsword Attacks
If you want to know how damage works, go here How Damage works
Physcial Atrribute Skills:
Mega Slash
One slash, very powerful, does 1181% attack power(so 11.81*your normal attack power).
Fatal Fury
One of the worst moves in the game, never use it
Assault(may be wrong) Slash
You need to max Fatal Fury before having access to this skill. This move gives some mobility, does multiple weak slashes,but can mess up easily as it has a knockdown issue
(meaning, it can lose a lot of it's hits), those can be fixed by using it in the right moments(that is discussed in elsword basics).
Unlimited Blade
Multiple straightforward hits, if in awakening mode(also discussed in elsword basics), there's an after aura blast, which is the only reason to use this skill.
Magic Attribute Skills
Flame Geyser
Pretty useful for super armor mobs and when bosses have their limited super armor on, you won't be using this that much.
Character Development
Magic Knight
If you chose this path, go here Magic Knight
Sword Knight
If you chose this path, go here Sword Knight

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A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
We are one of the most important communities for the German Pen & Paper Role Playing Game "Das Schwarze Auge (DSA)", which is the most successful P&P game in Germany. We are not the publishers, just a community of players & fans. We run a non-commercial website.
More information on DSA/TDE in English language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Eye
The target audience is existing user base of ~7.000 People, and of course new people, which are interested in fantasy role playing games like AD&D, DSA/TDE... The average user is around 25 years old and a student.
What we want is one logo for all our projects.
The projects in detail are:
A News Site: http://www.dsa4.de
The Community: http://www.dsa4forum.de
A Wiki: http://www.wiki-aventurica.de
For example we want to replace the dragon from the board and the book reading guy from the newspages with the new logo.
The logo needs a good recognition value. It could contain everything whats possible in a fanatsy world like DSA/TDE
Nogos are very modern stylistic devices like Guns/cars/planes for example.
Colors must tone with http://www.dsa4.de and http://www.dsa4forum.de
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Yesterday, in Part 1 of this interview, Joe Bowler described the early years of his life and how he became a professional illustrator in the late 1940s. Today Joe tells us about his time at the the highly regarded Charles E. Cooper Studio, beginning at age 18 in 1947... ~ Leif Peng
JB: I went up [to the Cooper Studio] to get an appointment to see Chuck Cooper, but he was in the hospital with, I think it was a kidney problem or something. Chuck's brother Art was running the place, so I saw him instead.
He said, "Yeah, we need an apprentice here." So I said, "Oh, that's good! What'll I do here?" And he said, "Well, you wash brushes and clean palettes and run errands..." and I said, "No, no, no... I'm an artist. I work at making art." [Joe chuckles] And he said, "Oh really?" [Mock incredulity] "Well that's the job. That's it."
This was a Friday so he says, "You go home and think about it."
I said, "Alright, I'll do that." and I walked out. And all the way home I was thinking, "I just... committed suicide. I had a chance to get in with the Cooper Studio and I blew it." I literally didn't sleep that weekend. Monday morning I went into the city - caught the five o'clock train or something - and I was sitting on the 57th and Lex doorstep of the building when it opened for the day. I went up and said to Art Cooper, "I'll take it."
(Below, a spread from a mid-50s Cooper Studio promotional brochure)
All the artists had studios around the exterior of this floor, the 9th floor, and in the centre was the bullpen, which is where I was. And then an equal amount of space in the middle was the salesmen's room. Right outside the entrance to the bullpen was Coby Whitmore's studio. So I was able to meet him and then watch him work.
Every time I had any kind of a lull, that I wasn't doing anything, I was in that studio watching him paint. And he didn't paint there a lot because he had a studio at home, but let's just say I got to know him very well. [Joe chuckles]
(Below, a Coby Whitmore DPS from Cosmopolitan, February 1952)
Now this is a little later, but I remember going out to lunch with them, and everybody having two or three martinis (Coby was a great martini drinker) and he'd sit down in the middle of his studio with all the salesmen and everybody standing around talking, and he would paint in about three quarters of an hour a pretty girl with a cigarette - I think it was a 24-sheet billboard - and he would do that beginning to end in about forty-five minutes, talking the whole time... [Joe chuckles] ... and I'd be watching every stroke, every mixture of paint.
(Below, Coby Whitmore, Good Housekeeping, September 1949)
Then he'd give it to me and say, "Ok, wrap it up." I'd go out and matte it and wrap it and the salesman would go out and take it to the agency. That was a typical day. But just watching him work... every colour he put down on his palette, the way he applied the paint... that was my education really.
(Below, Coby Whitmore, Saturday Evening Post, March 1958)
In fact, when I was going to night school at the Art Students League - the Frank Reilly class in drawing - I thought, well I guess I'll go sign up for his painting class too. In the middle of the first day of class, he started to tell everybody about the way to mix colours. He had this incredibly graduated value scale he was running down... and I finally put up my hand and said, "That not the way they do it." [Joe laughs]
(Frank Reilly conducting a class, year unknown)
He said, "Oh, really?" and I said, "Yeah, I'm working at the Cooper Studio." and he said, "Oh really? Well I guess you'd better just go and work there some more." [We both laugh] He literally kicked me outta the place.
(Below, magazine ad illustrated by Frank Reilly, 1954)
Which is amazing because, years later - I mean fifteen, twenty years later - the phone rings and it's Frank Reilly! He says. "Oh Joe, how are you? I'm just finishing up my book and putting the names of some of my more famous students in there..." [Joe chuckles] "...and I see your name is there, but I don't really remember too much about you."
(Below, a page from the Frank Reilly School brochure showcasing some famous former students)
LP: Hahaha... you didn't remind him that he kicked you out of class?
JB: Nooo, I didn't, I didn't. He asked me if he could use my name in his book and I said sure. [Joe chuckles]
LP: Now Joe, going back to when Art Cooper hired you and that early period when you were doing the work in the bullpen... at what point did you get to actually do some illustration work?
JB: I think it wasn't more than a month or two. Most of the fellows probably spent about a year in there. But at the end of a month or so, the head guy in the bullpen, Ernie Olsen, went to Art and said I wasn't working out. That I'm never there and don't do my work... and he told me this and I couldn't believe it! I said, "I do my work!" And he said, "Well, you're always off somewhere looking at the artists working."
(Below, Joe Bowler spread from Collier's, January 1954)
So he said he was gonna fire me... but luckily, up on the 11th floor, there was this fellow who was sort of like an art director for Cooper's. His name was Craig Bollman, a good old friend of Coby's, and Ernie said, "He needs a paste-up guy up there. So get your ass up there." So I was saved!
(Below, Joe Bowler, Collier's, April 1955)
Craig took me in his office and said, "Do you know anything about paste-up?" I said, "No." He said, "You just wanna paint, don'tcha?" I said, "Yeah." He said, "Well, take that drawing board over there and let's see what you can do." So he allowed me to paint samples.
(Below, Joe Bowler, Good Housekeeping, January 1954)
And the more I did, the more the salesmen looked at them. So my initial work was doing "bounced jobs" from other illustrators - either from Cooper's or other places - that the salesmen brought back because of some problem. And I would redo them and then they would go through. So I got more and more in with the salesmen - they loved me.
(Below, a Joe Bowler illustrated ad from 1952)
LP: So while you were doing these bounced job illustrations, were you also doing samples of the sort of 'boy/girl' romance illustrations Coby or Joe DeMers would do?
JB: Yeah... well, this was a little later... I was working all night on this painting of a head of a pretty girl. Coby came in with an illustration he'd done for Cosmo and wanted it matted and he saw this painting and he said, "Hey, put a matte on that; I'll take it with me."
(Below, Joe Bowler illustration, date and publication unknown)
So he took it with him to Cosmo, to Frank Eltonhead, the art director. When he came back he said, "They bought it - just bill 'em for a thousand." Well, a thousand dollars to me at that time was the same as a million! You know? A thousand dollars!
(Below, Joe Bowler, Good Housekeeping, July 1957)
I don't think it was more than three months or so, I was in about three or four magazines.
(Above, photo of Joe as featured in Ladies Home Journal, March 1953, in conjunction with his first assignment for the magazine, shown below)
LP: That's astounding.
JB: Yeah, it really happend so quickly.
Continued tomorrow
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Joe Bowler Interview, Part 2: The Cooper Studio Years Begin
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I am posting here rather than a brand specific area as I think this is a more generalised problem.
In my case - I have found photographing vivid red flowers really hard.
With my A-200 I found that turning down the saturation a tad and fine tuning the WB in the direction of Blue helped - but only working hard in Photoshop
straightened it out. Similarly with my older Oly C-740.
Now I find the self same problem with the Nikon D80 - in fact - out of the box, and in Auto WB it's a maniak for reds!!!
Still with patience and experimentation I am generally OK with playing with colourspace and White balance - that is until I try to photograph a lovely Red rose in my garden - it just saturates out and goes a bit on the orange side
First shot was just after the rain - it looked wonderfull - but my photo did it no favours at all.
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A Honey Pot for Springtime!
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As a Conservator, I often think of how privileged I am to be able to handle and examine museum objects, up close and personal. Not all objects move me, but at the moment I am very pleased to be working on this one:


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The announcement follows a meeting earlier this year between Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Liz Longhurst, who started a petition for legal reforms to ban violent internet porn after the brutal murder of her daughter.
Thirty-one year-old Jane Longhurst, a special needs teacher, was raped and strangled with a pair of tights by a male acquaintance in 2003. Graham Coutts, an amateur musician, attacked her just hours after surfing the web to feed his apparent obsession with necrophilia and asphyxial sex. Coutts stored her naked body for 35 days before trying to burn it in woods. He was convicted in February 2004 and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.
Extreme adult websites – those depicting bestiality, necrophilia, rape or torture – can fall foul of the Obscene Publications Act in the UK. This Act dates from 1959 and makes it an offence to publish any article whose effect likely to "deprave and corrupt" those who see it.
The Act can be used to force ISPs in the UK to remove such websites; but obscenity laws differ in other countries, where extreme adult sites are often hosted And while publishing such material is illegal in the UK, visiting it or possessing such images is not. This differs from the regulation of child pornography – where both publication and downloading of the material are banned.
Home Office spokesman Brendan O'Grady told OUT-LAW today, "We're looking at ways in which the current law on violent pornographic sites might be strengthened and we hope to make an announcement shortly."
He added that the Government has made a lot of progress on dealing with child pornography and it will look at lessons it can learn from that. The Home Office is also liaising with other governments with a view to international cooperation and looking at possible ways of blocking access to violent porn.
The Home Office is unwilling to confirm at this time that the law will make illegal the access of violent internet porn. Mr O'Grady also declined to comment on a report in The Herald newspaper last week which suggested that the plans will include changes to the UK's Data Protection Act.
The Herald suggested that the changes might allow credit card firms to pass on information about individuals who use their cards to pay for access to such material hosted elsewhere.
The Jane Longhurst Campaign Against Violent Internet Pornography calls upon the Government and ISPs to take action to block access to such sites; for an overhaul of the Obscene Publications Act to make it a criminal offence to possess such images; for better international cooperation to close down sites hosted abroad; and for internet images in the UK to be included in the remit of OFCOM.
According to the BBC, the campaign has received 32,000 signatures so far.
(1-page / 8KB PDF, hosted by the website of Martin Salter MP)
(hosted by the Internet Watch Foundation)


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And then I got the news that we'd had a death in the family. That two people I love very much had just suffered a very tragic, very devastating, unexpected loss.
Things were kind of tough for a while. Less for me than for others. But.
I was still so sad, you know?
So. I haven't posted. I made lasagna instead. Like a stupidhead. Like that fixes a damn thing. Like their freezer wasn't already packed full of food.
Then yesterday, I went out by myself. Sat in my car in a parking lot listening to the windshield wipers going swish swash, swish swash. I rested my head on the steering wheel and watched headlights pass by.
Eventually, my thoughts turned from the funeral to my children. How Bigger Bean said to me the other day, "I'm glad you're not like other moms." How Little Bean likes to brush my hair with lotion and reach into my coat pockets digging for Hershey Kisses. How my radio is almost always set to Radio Disney and how my calendar is jam packed with my children's names and how there's almost always a light on in my house or noise to remind me how not alone I am.
Right around the time I remembered my children laughing about their creative alterations to the lyrics of Jingle Bells, I realized: 2011 is not The Year of Suck. It is merely 2011, in which Suck happened right along with Awesome. Here's the epiphany I had:
Suck can only outweigh Awesome if I press a thumb to Suck's scale.
So. I chose: happiness. And then I went home.
2012, be there suck or awesome, I'm going to be happy then, too.


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This chapter provides instructions for using the interactive text-based interface to install the Communications Suite software.
This chapter has the following sections:
Before beginning the tasks in the chapter, you should have developed an installation sequence and ensured that any general installation requirements and prerequisites are met.
Refer to Verifying General Installation Prerequisites for specific information on prerequisites for this release of Communications Suite.
You can find system requirements for Communications Suite products listed in the Sun Java Communications Suite 5 Release Notes. For Java ES products, see Platform Requirements and Issues in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Release Notes for UNIX.
You must use Access Manager Legacy (6.x) installation type if you are installing Access Manager with Messaging Server, Calendar Server, Delegated Administrator, or Instant Messaging. Access Manager Realm (7.x) installation type can only be used if you are not installing any of these product components.
For Configure Now: On the Access Manager: Administration (1 of 7) page, select Legacy (version 6.x style). On the Access Manager: Web Container for running Access Manager (4 of 7) page. set the Console Deployment URI to amconsole (the default value).
For Configure Later: As root, run the amconfig script to configure Access Manager after installation. To select the Legacy (6.x) installation type, set the following parameters in your configuration script input file, amsamplesilent:
For Download. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Communications Suite installation bundle and expand the bundle. For example:
unzip compressed-file.zip
You will see a Copyright file, a README directory and the operating system directory, for example, Solaris_sparc. In the operating system directory, you will see the Product directory, the release_info file, and the installer script.
For CD. Navigate to a directory that is not on the CD so that you can switch CDs during the installation session. For example:
cd /tmp
You will run the installer command using the fully qualified path to the installer. For example:
In this example, mountpoint is where you mounted the CD and os_arch matches your platform, such as Solaris_sparc.
For DVD. Navigate to the DVD directory whose name matches your platform.
The text-based installer does not display a graphical interface, but instead prompts you for information using a series of questions. The following table describes how to respond to the installer's text-based prompts.Table 4–1 Responding to the Text-Based Installer Prompts
To accept default values, as indicated in square brackets [ ]
Press Return.
To select items from a list
Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to select item 2 in a list, type 2 and press Return.
To select items 1, 3, and 4, type 1,3,4 and press Return.
To deselect items from a list
Type the numbers for the items in a comma-separated sequence, entering the minus character (-) before each number, and press Return. Spaces are not allowed. For example, to deselect item 2 from the list, type -2 and press Return.
To deselect items 1, 3, and 4, type -1,-3,-4 and press Return.
To provide a value to a text field
Type the value and press Return.
To provide a password
Type the password and press Return.
The password will not appear on the terminal window.
To return to the previous page
Type the left angle (<) character and press Return.
To exit the session
Type the exclamation mark character (!) and press Return.
A full description of options for the installer command and its options is contained in Appendix F, Installation Commands.
If you have problems during installation, refer to the troubleshooting information in Chapter 10, Troubleshooting.
If you are not logged in as root, become superuser.
Start the text-based installer:
./installer —nodisplay
Welcome information is displayed.
Press Return to display the Software License Agreement.
Continue pressing Return to read the entire Agreement.
To accept the terms of the License Agreement, type yes and press Return.
If you do not accept all the terms of the License, select the default no by pressing Return. This ends the installation session.
The installer checks your host for previously installed versions of product components. If any are found, a list of the detected components is displayed, under the title Component Products on This Host.
Later in the installation session, you might be instructed to upgrade or remove those components before continuing. When these issues are resolved, installation can proceed.
The installer displays the Component Selection Main Menu. For example:
Choose Software Components - Main Menu --------------------------------------- Note: "* *" indicates that the selection is disabled [ ] 1. Sun Java(TM) System Calendar Server 6 2006Q4 [ ] 2. Sun Java(TM) System Directory Preparation Tool [ ] 3. Sun Java(TM) System Web Server 7.0 2006Q4 [ ] 4. Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 2006Q4 [ ] 5. Sun Java (TM) System Web Proxy Server 4.0.4 2006Q4 [ ] 6. Sun Java(TM) System Messaging Server 6 2006Q4 [ ] 7. Sun Java(TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 2006Q4 [ ] 8. Sun Java (TM) System High Availability Session Store 4.4 2006Q4 [ ] 9. Sun Cluster 3.1U4 [ ] 10. Sun Java(TM) System Access Manager 7.1 2006Q4 [ ] 11. Sun Java(TM) System Communications Express 6 2006Q4 [ ] 12. Communication Services Delegated Administrator 2006Q4 [ ] 13. Sun Java(TM) System Message Queue 3.7 UR1 [ ] 14. Sun Java(TM) System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.2 2006Q4 [ ] 15. Service Registry 3 2006Q4 [ ] 16. Sun Java(TM) System Instant Messaging 7 2006Q4 [ ] 17. Sun Cluster Agents 3.1 2006Q4 [ ] 18. All Shared Components Enter a comma separated list of products to install, or press R to refresh the list [] {"<" goes back, "!" exits}:
Type a comma-separated list of the numbers associated with the components you want to install, and press Return.
The installer presents a list called Choose Software Components — Confirm Choices which shows the components you selected.
If the chosen components are correct, press Return.
The installer queries you about installing subcomponents for those components you chose. For example:
Component Selection - Selected Product "Sun Java (TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 2006Q4" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *[X] 1. Java Enter5prise System Directory Server 6 Core Server *[X] 1. Java Enter5prise System Directory Service Control Center *[X] 1. Java Enter5prise System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6 Command-Line Utilities *[X] 1. Java Enter5prise System Directory Proxy Server 6 Core Server Enter a comma-separated list of componets to install (or D to install all) [D] {"<" goes back, "!" exits}
Not all product components have subcomponents. In this case, these components are displayed, but no response is required from you.
Make your subcomponent selections.
After you have confirmed all your subcomponent selections, the installer queries you about installing multilingual packages.
To install multilingual packages for all selected components, type Y and press Return.
Default is N, which means only English packages are installed. If you type Y, multilingual packages are installed for all languages for all the components you selected.
Resolve product component dependency errors.
If there is a problem with component dependencies, the installer displays a Product Dependency Check error or warning, depending on the problem. Typical problems might include:
A local dependency has not been met
In this situation, return to Component Selection and select the appropriate product component to satisfy the local dependency.
A remote dependency will be met later during postinstallation configuration
If you do not intend to specify a remote installation, return to Component Selection and select the appropriate product component to satisfy the dependency locally.
Previous versions of product components are already installed on the local host
If incompatible versions of product components are detected, you will need to exit the installer and upgrade or remove the incompatible versions.
Resolve shared component dependency errors.
If any incompatible versions of shared components are found on the host, you are asked if you want to upgrade them. Review the Shared Components Upgrade Required list and determine if it is safe for the installer to automatically upgrade these shared components.
Do not upgrade shared components without checking the dependencies that exist on the host for non-Communications Suite applications. First verify that these existing applications are compatible with the required versions of the shared components. For information about upgrading Communications Suite product components, see the Sun Java Communications Suite 5 Upgrade Guide, and for Java ES products see the Sun Java Enterprise System 2006Q3 Upgrade Guide.
Type 1 (the default) or press Return to have the installer upgrade the shared components.
Type 2 to cancel the installation session so that you can upgrade the shared components manually.
If you type 2, you must remove or upgrade the shared components on the Shared Components Upgrade Required list before you can continue with installation.
On Solaris OS, indicate if the installer should upgrade the J2SE SDK.
If an incompatible system-wide version of the J2SE SDK is detected, you are asked if you want the installer to upgrade or if you want to upgrade manually. The installer performs this check only on the Solaris platform because the Linux platform does not have a specific, system-wide installation of the J2SE SDK.
Accept the default installation locations for the selected product components, or replace the default locations and press Return.
A default installation directory is displayed for each selected product component. For example, on Solaris:
Installation Directories ======================== Enter the name of the target installation directory for each product: Directory Server [/opt/SUNWdsee] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Directory Preparation Tool [/opt/SUNWcomds] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Web Server [/opt/SUNWwbsvr7] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Web Server Instance [/var/opt/SUNWwbsvr7] {"<" goes back, "!" exits}
Review any issues discovered by the system check.
After the installation directories are chosen, the installer automatically initiates a check for disk space, memory, swap space, operating system patches, and operating system resources based on the components you selected. The left column of the following table lists the possible results of the system check. The right column specifies what action you should take for each situation
Message Displayed
Your Action
System ready for installation
Proceed with installation.
System ready for installation
Includes a warning that memory or swap space is not at the recommended level.
Proceed with installation, but add memory or swap space when installation is complete. If you do not add memory or swap space, performance might be seriously affected.
System not ready for installation
If any patches are missing, the patch numbers are displayed. If you can fix the reported problems without stopping the installer, do so and then click Proceed with installation.
For some issues, such as low memory, you can proceed with installation, but for others, such as missing patches, you must resolve the issue before the installer can proceed.
Solaris 10. If the installer is running in a non-global zone, you will receive a message telling you that memory information is not available.
Install any missing operating system patches.
You will need to install missing patches before you can proceed with installation. For guidelines, refer to To Install a Patch.
After the system is ready for installation, press Return to continue.
You are queried about what type of configuration you want for the installation and asked to provide global settings.
Specify a configuration type from the following options:
Configure Now (the default). Allows you to configure product components that permit configuration at installation time. Your Configure Now tasks include specifying the common server settings, and entering the configuration information for the product components selected.
Some product components cannot be configured during installation. If any of these product components were selected, you receive a message saying that you will need to configure these product components after installation.
Configure Later. You provide only the minimum values that are necessary for installing the packages. The installer proceeds without doing further configuration. If you chose the Configure Later type, skip to To Install the Software.
For a Configure Now installation, specify common server settings.
The installer presents you with a list of common server settings and their defaults for the components your selected. For example:
Specify Common Server Settings Enter Host Name [myComputer] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter DNS Domain Name [example.com] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter IP Address [192.168.255.255] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter Server admin User ID [Admin] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter Admin User's Password (Password cannot be less than 8 characters) [] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Confirm Admin User's Password [] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter System User [root] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter system Group [root] {"<" goes back, "!" exits}
Either accept the defaults, or use alternate data for these global parameters. For information on the parameters, refer to the Common Settings in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Installation Reference for UNIX.
When passwords are typed, they must be at least 8 characters long. The following special characters cannot be used:
; & ( ) ! | < > ' " $ ^ \ # / , @ %
For a Configure Now installation, the installer presents one or more configuration queries for the selected product components that can be configured during installation. The following information can help in your selection:
For information on the configuration values on each page, click the online help button at the bottom of each page. This information can also be found in the Chapter 3, Configuration Information, in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Installation Reference for UNIX.
Configuration worksheets are provided for gathering your configuration information in Chapter 4, Configuration Worksheets, in Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Installation Reference for UNIX.
Although Sun Cluster software itself cannot be configured during installation, you are offered the option of enabling remote support to simplify postinstallation configuration. The default is Yes.
After installation is complete, you can access your configuration information in the Installation Summary here:
Solaris OS: /var/sadm/install/logs
Linux: /var/opt/sun/install/logs
Specify configuration settings for product components.
Either accept the defaults or use the information you gathered in the product component worksheets to answer the installer queries regarding each product component.
A typical configuration query looks similar to the following:
Web Server: Specify instance Settings Server Name [myComputer.example.com] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter HTTP Port [80] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter Runtime UNIX User ID [webservd] {"<" goes back, "!" exits} Enter Document Root Directory [/var/opt/SUNWwbsvr7/docs] {"<" goes back, "!" exits}
You must use Access Manager Legacy (6.x) installation type if you are installing Access Manager with Messaging Server, Calendar Server, Delegated Administrator, or Instant Messaging. Access Manager Realm (7.x) installation type can only be used if you are not installing any of these product components.
Configure Now. You will be prompted with the following: Install type [Legacy]. Select Legacy (version 6.x style) which is the default. When you are asked for the web container for running Access Manager, set the Console Deployment URI to amconsole.
Configure Later. As root, run the amconfig script to configure Access Manager after installation. To select the Legacy (6.x) installation type, set the following parameters in your configuration script input file, amsamplesilent:
To use Web Server as the web container, the Web Server Configuration Type mode must be set to Admin Server, not Agent, when you are queried on the Web Server Configuration Type Data page. Default value is Admin Server.
Review the list of your selected product components and subcomponents.
After configuration values are set, the installer displays a Ready to Install list of the components and subcomponents that you have selected. For example:
Ready to Install ------------------------- The following components will be installed. Product: Sun Java Communications Suite 5 Uninstall Location: /var/sadm/prod/SUNWcomm-entsys5 Space Required: 199.10 M ---------------------------------------------- Sun Java (TM) System Web Server 7.0 2006Q4 Sun Java (TM) System Web Server 7.0 CLI Sun Java (TM) System Web Server 7.0 Core Sun Java (TM) System Directory Preparation Tool Sun Java (TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 2006Q4 Sun Java (TM) System Directory Server 6 Core Server Sun Java (TM) System Directory Service Control Center Sun Java (TM) System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6 Command-Line Utilities Sun Java (TM) System Directory Proxy Server 6 Core Server
If you need to make changes, type < and press Return until you reach the prior query that requires a change. Although shared components are not explicitly listed, they have already been verified and will be installed if they are needed by the selected product components.
When you are satisfied with the Ready to Install list, you can start the installation.
For Linux, do not use the rpm command while the installer is running. If you do, the installer might hang.
To start the installation, press Return to accept the default [1].
The installation process starts and a progress indicator bar informs you of the state of the installation. For example:
Java Enterprise System |-1%-------------------25%----------------------50%--
Depending on the size and complexities of your installation, this process can be lengthy.
When the installation has successfully completed, the Installation Complete message is displayed.
Examine the Installation Summary and Installation logs.
When installation is complete, any issues from the installation, such as insufficient memory, are displayed on the screen. The following files also contain useful information
[1] Installation Summary. Lists each component installed and the settings you specified. If you chose Configure Now, this summary includes all the configuration values.
[2] Installation log. Displays the installer's log messages for components.
After installation, these files can be found here:
Solaris OS: /var/sadm/install/logs
Linux: /var/opt/sun/install/logs
To see a full listing of the installer logs, refer to Examining Installation Log Files.
Exit the installer.
Your installer session is done. Product components that were installed will need to be started after you have completed all postinstallation tasks. Proceed to Next Steps
To install additional components, you can run the installer again. The installer detects the newly-installed components and uses them to satisfy the dependencies of other components. Installed product components are disabled at the Component Selection page.
When adding product components to a host where a Communications Suite installation has already been done, be sure to use the correct paths and passwords if the new product component will use a product component that is already installed and configured. If you do not remember what these are, refer to the Installation Summary for the original installation before adding any product components to the host.
After you have completed the installer portion of your Communications Suite installation, proceed as follows:
Verifying After Installation provides instructions for verifying that this phase of installation was successful.
Chapter 6, Completing Communications Suite Postinstallation Configuration provides final instructions on postinstallation configuration.


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I know that some of you poor souls out there in internet-ville don't have easy access to avocados, and I'm sorry for your suffering. Here in California, though, avocados aren't hard to come by. All around town, people have avocado trees in their backyards, and there are avocados at our farmers' markets all year long. Basically, I can get my hands on an avocado pretty much whenever I want one.
Still, even in the land of plenty, a bad avocado can really be a bummer. You cut into your avocado with a heart full of anticipation and hope - only to find a mushy brown mess of despair. It is very disappointing. Recently, though, I had the opposite experience. I picked up this giant beauty at a local health food store. It's a Bacon Avocado, which has an unfortunate name, but is otherwise a glory to behold.
This was the best avocado I've ever had. Huge, velvety smooth, creamy, perfectly balanced in the firm-soft spectrum, flavorful and beautiful. I took a picture to memorialize it. Then, I went back to the store and bought more. I've got one sitting on the counter ripening right now.
Mostly, I either put avocados on our salads (just cut up in cubes) or I put avocado slices on toast with a little bit of lime juice. I think those are my two primary modes of avocado consumption. How about you? What would you do with these special avocados?


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I love coming up with themed parties, and I was very happy with how Logan's Cars themed 3rd birthday party turned out, especially since he was thrilled with it. I consider myself to be creative and it is lots of fun for me to come up with decorations, food, activities, and other things to fit with the theme of the party. I started planning ideas several weeks beforehand, and then I began creating the bigger items about two and half weeks prior to the party. Yes, this took time, but again, it was fun for me. I am not suggesting that every mom needs to do this sort of thing, and my goal is not to make other people feel bad if they don't throw elaborate themed birthday parties. However, if you are the type of person who really LOVES making things and you have the time and the ability, I say go for it. (Since I am home full time, I like to say that I have more time than money, forcing me to come up with less expensive ways to do something. This is really good incentive to be creative.) This is my gift, and I would not do this sort of thing if it was "work" for me. (There are lots of other "cool mom" things that I do not excel at, so everyone has their niche area.) I hope you enjoy seeing the ideas.
The Invitations:
In the interest of keeping it simple, I used this cute animated race track evite. I titled the party, "Welcome Race Fans!" and added this text, "Rev up your engines and race over to {Our Last Name} Speedway because Lightning Logan is turning 3! We will have Cars themed food and fun activities in the fast lane. Be sure to pre-register with the Pit Chief by 8/21 to reserve your pit pass, and don't forget to bring your own pit crew! (No presents are necessary.)
~ Pit Chief Meg
The Food:
This food for this party was fun to make and it was well received by both kids and adults. The main dish was "Mack's Cheesy Wheels" or homemade macaroni and cheese using wagon wheel pasta (which is surprisingly hard to find) and for some reason I do not have a photo to share. I borrowed the idea from this blog and gave it my own name.
|{"McQueen's Fruit Racers" were a big hit. I definitely recommend that you soak the apple slices in water with lemon juice since Red Delicious turn brown quite easily, but I soaked mine and they stayed nice looking. The wheels are made from halved green grapes and they're held on with toothpicks so you will want to watch kids with sharp edges. I found the idea for this snack here.}
|{"Sally's Cozy Cones" are just Nacho Cheese Bugles in a bowl.}
|{"Doc Hudson's Chocolate Dip Sticks" are pretzel rods dipped in melted Dove Chocolate Discoveries milk chocolate, because I couldn't bear to use bad chocolate.}
|{"Luigi's Spare Tires" are store bought mini chocolate doughnuts stacked up high. I got the idea from here.}
|{Please excuse the blurry photo. "Fillmore's Organic Fuel" is really Country Time Lemonade mix with about 5 or six drops of neon green food coloring added.}
The Cake:
A few months ago, I found this silicone race car cake pan on clearance at Marshall's for $3, and decided it was perfect for having a Cars themed birthday cake.
|{Here is the finished cake plus six cupcakes that I made with the extra batter. The cake display is just a piece of cardboard box covered with aluminum foil. I made buttercream frosting and dyed it red using the Wilton no-taste icing color, which I found at Jo-Ann. My biggest concern was getting a true red since I didn't think Logan would be pleased with a pink Lightning McQueen. I am glad I found the no-taste version, though, because I heard that red food coloring can be pretty yucky. Since I forgot to leave some frosting plain white for the eye, I added half a marshmallow with a blue M&M and black decorating gel to finish it. I used black McCormick food coloring from Walmart to do the tires and added red M&Ms to the centers. The lightning bolt is yellow decorating icing and the number 95 was a mix of that along with the red buttercream, I think. Since the cake was actually 12 separate pieces, I had to frost each one individually on all sides (I used an angled spatula, which is very handy) and then push them together to make the car look like one whole cake. This was a little extra effort, but it was worth it when I went to serve cake and didn't need a knife. I just pulled it apart with my hands. This is not the nicest looking cake I have ever made, but I had one very happy little boy, so that was all that mattered to me.}
|{See my directions for making the birthday candle.}
The Decorations:
|{My inspiration for this welcome sign that I taped to our front door came from this poster. I decided to skip hand lettering and go with word processing to make it easier for myself. The words "welcome to" and "gateway to Logan's party" are in Brush Script and "RADIATOR SPRINGS" is in Showcard Gothic. I used the word art feature to make all the lettering in outline format. Then I printed it on blue paper and colored in the letters with dark blue and red scrapbooking pens. I "laminated" my sign with two pieces of clear Con-tact paper.}
|{To make this sign, I printed this image in Microsoft Word as large as I could and still have it fit on a single piece of paper. Then, I used tracing paper and went over the design with a pencil. I put my traced copy on top of a piece of plain white card stock and then traced over the pencil marks to leave an impression on the white paper. Finally, I went over the impressions with pink and turquoise scrapbooking pens. A ruler was helpful for this. I "laminated" my Flo's V8 Cafe sign with two pieces of clear Con-tact paper and then taped it to a kitchen cupboard so that it was near the food.}
|{Making this 3D paper Tow Mater should have earned me a black belt in origami! I will warn you that by the time you cut out all the pieces, fold them, and glue them together, you will have invested about an hour and a half. It was super cute, though, and now he is living in Logan's bedroom on a shelf. Also, if you don't read directions all the way through before starting, I'll give you a tip: you will need brown string of some sort (luckily, I had embroidery thread on hand) for the tow cable, and something to make a hole with (I used a push pin).}
|{You may remember this road sign from Logan's construction themed 2nd birthday party.}
|{After 3 coats of white paint, I added some black Sharpie, and transformed it into...}
|{... this new age-appropriate decoration. In retrospect, it makes less sense for a racing theme, but whatever. I wanted to re-use something, and I did.}
|{I also made some hanging decorations for the chandelier with clip art images, clear Con-tact paper, and fishing line. Mostly, I used rectangular images because it was easy to match them up for making them two sided. One that wasn't a rectangle, but did line up well was the Cars logo. Another was the Sarge's Surplus Hut sign, because I actually found images for both sides!}
The Activities:
I used our plastic bowling set to create a game I called "Tractor Tipping." (I was kind of proud of myself for coming up with this. My original idea was to paint aluminum cans and make it more of a bean-bag toss type carnival game, and then I realized this would be so simple and easier for the kids to play without help setting up.) I printed off several of this clip art image and then cut them out and used clear packaging tape to affix them to the plastic bowling pins. Easy peasy.
The "Pit Stop" game turned out pretty cool. I made it with one side of a dishwasher box, paint, black Sharpie, and some clip art images. See my previous post for more detailed directions.
This one is probably my all-time favorite. I have wanted to do a pinata for awhile, but never wanted to spend the money. I know am I tooting my own horn, but this Lightning McQueen pull-string pinata (formerly a cardboard box and some curling ribbon) turned out so well, that I really, truly amazed even myself. It was really one of those things that I pictured in my head and thought it would either be a spectacular success or a huge failure, and fortunately, it was the former.
Other activities were just having out the car mat and toy cars to play with plus the twisty race car track toy where the two cars spiral down. And, of course, they played outside. The nice thing about planning parties for little ones is that they can easily entertain themselves with very little.
The Thank You Cards:
Even though the party was over, the Cars theme continued with the thank you cards.
|{I made a fill-in-the-blank template for the cards once again using this checkered flag border. The wording says, "Dear ______________, Ka-Chow! Thank you for helping me to celebrate my 3rd birthday! Thanks also for the ______________________________________. I love it! Sincerely, Logan" and it is in the Magneto font. I also added this image of Lightning McQueen.}
|{For the front of the thank you cards, I used this image. When I printed in in Microsoft Word, it was almost the perfect size for the card. I only had to trim it slightly.}


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The foreign exchange (FX) market is a "wild west" open to rigging, but regulators are becoming sharper as the spotlight is turned on the sector, the associate vice president of NASDAQ stock exchange's market surveillance team told CNBC.
Regulators across the globe are trying to crack down on manipulation of the market after a number of high-profile cases came to light in recent months. The EU has proposed new rules to impose tougher sanctions against insider dealing and market manipulation, such as the benchmark fixing seen in the Libor scandal. European Union regulators are also looking into allegations of FX manipulation, the EU's antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia said in an online chat organised by the European Commission.
Swiss regulator Finma meanwhile has launched an investigation into several banks for possible rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
Regulators have had to keep up with new technologies such as high frequency trading and other systems that use algorithms to buy and sell currencies.
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But the "wild west" FX market is being reined in as surveillance technology advances, said Bill Nosal, vice president of NASDAQ's SMARTS division, the software aimed at market surveillance.
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Crying Eye.
I noticed last night that my dachsund's eye was watering and gunky.
Now tonight, I notice that it's watering and the corner and white part of his eye is red. He's also been squinting with one eye.
He got neutured 2 weeks ago and the day that I brought him home his eye was also gunky (same eye) and watery but it cleared up the next day. Should I be worried? Does anyone think it could be in correlation to what happened after he was fixed?
Any advice would be appreciated. I don't get paid until Friday so I'm trying to hold off a vet visit if I can.
Hi, doxielover05. Welcome to the board!
One thing to try is rinsing the eye with Sterile Saline. It's cheap and widely available at department stores, pharmacies, even grocery stores. It will help wash out any irritants that may be causing the problem and sometimes that's all that's needed. As long as there's no pus it's probably safe to wait a couple days till Friday to have it vet-checked, but don't wait too much longer than that if the problem continues.
It's not too unusual to notice gunky eyes after a surgical procedure and that usually clears up after a day, so what you saw two weeks ago was probably normal and not related to what's happening now.
Oh, and once things settle down for you, we'd love to see some pics of your dachsund!
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Braised pork chops with sautéed tomatoes
We've got a nice and pretty well-known butcher's shop near our house, and I do try to buy most of my meat from there. There other day I returned with a nice piece of pork, top loin, to be more specific. As there are only two big and one small eater around our table during the weekdays, I divided the meat into two. I had a clear idea that I'll use half of the meat to make my mum's very delicious and special pork stew. The other half I wanted to use for something I hadn't made before. I did a quick web search and came across a lovely-sounding recipe in the the Australian Better Homes and Gardens magazine. We didn't have to regret the choice - the slightly tangy tomato sauce was an excellent accompaniment to the braised pork chops. No other extras were necessary.
Braised pork chops with sautéed tomatoes
(Siga tomatises kastmes)
Adapted from Australian Better Homes & Gardens magazine
Serves 4
8 small or 4 large pork loin chops, trimmed of excess fat
4 Tbsp all-purpose/plain flour
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1-2 Tbsp rapeseed or olive oil
2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 large (red) onions, peeled, halved and thinly sliced
400 g can chopped peeled tomatoes
1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 fresh rosemary sprig
1 Tbsp capers, rinsed
Season flour with salt and pepper on a deep plate. Coat pork chops in flour mixture and dust off excess.
Heat the oil in a large, heavy-based pan. Add pork chops and cook on each side for 3-4 minutes. Remove from pan and put aside on a plate.
Add the onions to the pan and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook for another 2 minutes.
Add tomato, vinegar, rosemary and capers and stir to combine. Simmer for 3-4 minutes.
Taste for seasoning, then return chops to pan and cook for 2-3 minutes.
2 comments:
It looks delicious. It helps to have a good butcher's nearby. ;-)
- 2:22 pm, April 12, 2011
- PapaCheong's 拿手好菜 said...
looks good. try out soon.
- 6:42 pm, April 12, 2011
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The Sixth Annual Wabash-DePauw Golf Outing, sponsored by the St. Joseph Valley Association of Wabash Men, continued the success of past years with a great round of golf, good turnout, great meal, and enough raffle prizes to make everyone a winner. The site again this year was the Juday Creek Golf Course, long recognized as one of the top public courses in Indiana.
After golf and a prime rib dinner, Peter Horvath '92, president of the regional association, welcomed guests and gave everyone an update on the group's upcoming events. The group also heard from DePauw Trustee Don Findlay D'56, who provided the "minority report" on the latest at DePauw.
Many thanks go to Roger Senkbeil '68 and his lovely wife Carol. Roger and Carol set up the outing, recruit the hole sponsors, and do all the coordination work vital to a fun outing. Dick Barger '55 also provided a lot of help in everything from registering golfers to helping with the raffle.
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For many years Moore has contributed to a number of agricultural publications, including Farm Industry News, Corn and Soybean Digest, No-Till Farmer and Farm Equipment. He is a member of both the North American Agricultural journalists and American Agricultural Editors' Association.
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In June I visited Los Angeles for the first time. Eager to win me over to the Big Orange, my friend Jack signed us up to volunteer withFood Forward, a nonprofit that organizes volunteers to harvest excess fruits and vegetables, an age-old practice known as gleaning. Food Forward donates the produce to food bank that distributes it to food pantries throughout the area. This week's hero, Rick Nahmias, founded and directs the program.
Our volunteer day, led by Jack's good friend and Food Forward volunteer coordinator Max Kantor, took place at the Huntington Botanical Gardens near Pasadena, where 30 of us gleaned orange trees in the breathtaking labyrinth-like grove for two hours. Rick wasn't there that day, but the embodiment of his vision was, and like a well-oiled machine we picked over 4,000 pounds of oranges – 16,000 servings of fruit. As we loaded box after box into the truck I turned to look back at the grove. It looked exactly as it had before we began, with hundreds of thousands of oranges that would be left to ripen, fall and rot. We had skimmed the surface and it would benefit thousands of people, but there was so much left to be done.
Scenes like this – rich with life and sometimes bittersweet, inspired Rick to found Food Forward, and they also serve as subjects for his work as a photographer, writer and filmmaker. Rick's accomplishments in all of these areas have earned him praise in LA and nationally. The Vegetarian Times recently named him one of the top 10 New Food Heroes and his critically acclaimed photojournalism art and educational exhibit The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farmworkers opens today at New York City's Chelsea Market, where it will run through November 4th.
When I called to set up an interview with Rick I was told that things were "crazy" over at Food Forward, and I could tell it was the kind of crazy you work to build and maintain, not dig out from under. The kind of crazy that means your message has been heard and your call is being answered.
Jen: So Rick, how are you doing, aside from everything being crazy?
Rick: Lots of crazy good stuff. What can I say? It's a really exciting time to be doing what we're doing. It seems like, as you can probably tell, with the food world as it is now and the innovative things around food it's the time to be doing this work.
Absolutely. There are so many connections to be made and so many people trying to get in on it and really make a difference.
Absolutely. And to me, one of the biggest things that I always say is that hunger is pretty inexcusable right now in this country, and it's not an issue of anything but distribution. And basically people should be getting the food that's there, that exists. It's not like we're in Sub-Saharan, Africa and there's famine. We have insane surplus. It's all about the economics and the politics of it and in our case it's really about trying to open channels of distribution to get nutritious food to people.
How is Food Forward doing that?
Well we started again with one tree that yielded about 300 pounds of tangerines. And that was a bit over three years ago and now our next monthly total should be 1 million pounds of fresh produce. Most of that's citrus, some of it's vegetables, some of it's peaches, some of it's - who knows what? But it's all fresh local produce. Living where we live and being blessed with a 12 month growing season has only made it more apparent to me that what we are doing is a complete no-brainer. I may have been lucky enough to come up with the idea and get this going and meet a really wonderful, talented group of people, but it's incredibly simple. You know, what we're doing is we're talking about picking something off a tree and giving it to someone who doesn't have access to it.
It's not about planting and reengineering things; it's really taking something and reimagining how we look at food. How it affects our lives, and how this can be an agent to bring people together. And that's really my underlying philosophy, and my underlying goal for the organization is for people to really evaluate the place for food in their lives as well as what food waste is like in our lives.
You have gotten a tremendous response from the community. I've been told that you've been overwhelmed with offers to have people come and glean their properties.
Right now, for every property that we can glean, there are several properties that we can't. I think we're getting 30 to 40 properties registered on our website a month, and we're doing about 20 harvests a month. We've got to factor in new properties and we're trying return to as many as the older properties that we did in the years before so that we build kind of a repertoire. We have an allegiance to the family and individuals who have offered their food to us before. We're also trying to build up our harvesting core of pick leaders, people like Max and Julie and the twenty other people that go out once a month for us, including myself. Everyone in our office, although they are not required to, does service for the organization. I've really tried to nurture a culture of service where once a month we do one pick each, and I think helped create an environment where people are invested in this as more than a job. It's a very simple thing and our volunteers love it - it's a four hour commitment, and we're always trying to bring in new pick leaders. It's really become kind of its own little family. We are training a few in any given month, where it goes on for a very small, like two or three session training. And after that, once a month we ask them to pick out a location and a date and we find a harvest for them. So it's not always their next door neighbor, but it's usually within ten or fifteen miles of their house, it's on a day of their choosing and they become kind of the host of this harvest party, whether it's five people or it's 50 people. And obviously if it's 50 people we bring some staff in. But it's about them again, bringing a message out of both volunteerism and about creating a process of what you witness, which is eight boxes or eighty boxes of citrus that just materializes from a tree and into the hands of those who need it. It's so simple. It works with children, it works with older people, it works with people of different economic backgrounds, and it just is the kind of tangibility. What we do is a real turn on for folks.
That is definitely something that I experienced when I was out there. I picked at Huntington Library and we came away with 4,000 pounds of oranges.
There is something special about Huntington Gardens and those types of relationships are growing with us. We have a couple of other large properties like Cal State Northridge, and those large harvesting events bring out a whole different sense of the abundance.
That was what struck me. The abundance. What were they doing before you stepped in?
One time I passed one of these city parks where you see a bulldozer with hundreds or thousands of grapefruit. It was just maddening. I took a photograph, because we were having trouble getting into this particular property and I kind of took it as like, "This is the evidence. This is the crime going on here." And when you've got people waiting in line at pantries and all they are getting are crackers and a cup of noodles, this is frickin' ridiculous. So this is what's going on in City Land and we're offering to come in at no cost, and harvest this stuff. What is the problem? We didn't have to go to those ends to prove our point, but it's not something that everybody appreciates. And that's what makes it crazy. It's not that everyone has to love Food Forward, but whether you are gleaning it yourself, or you are hiring someone to do it, just don't let that food go to waste.
Right. Another thing that struck me, is we were picking for two hours and I looked at the trees at the end, and I didn't notice a dent.
Exactly. That was one of those things where that's a good feeling and a bad feeling, because it means we have to come back again. The first pick I was ever on with Max, when he was just starting with us, there was this grapefruit fruit tree where there is no water, no fertilizer and no one touches this tree, and it gives off 13000 pounds of grapefruits a year, one freakin' tree. We had 15 people and we just cleaned it completely.
There is a little video on our website called Fruitanthropy and that tree is in it. It gives you an idea of what one tree looks like completely full and what it looks like completely naked. And we absolutely love that kind of thing. It talks a lot about the philosophy of what we're doing. I feel deeper change can occur if we were to get into people's psyches and say, "Look, statistics bear out that over 40 percent of the fruit we produce in this country is wasted. It's thrown away or not harvested."
If we can just re-gauge our expectations around food waste, think of how much power we can harness. How many resources don't have to be spent to overproduce. These are trees that are producing year-in and year-out, even if we're not there. What's crazy to me is it's one of those things where it's nature. We may not be able to get to a tree I spot in my neighborhood for whatever reason, the owner is on vacation or they've got a renter, and the renter doesn't want anyone in the backyard. Whatever the issue is, we can't get to the fruit that year. And I just walk by and every time I walk by it's a little bee sting, because I know that's because of the powers that be in this universe of ours that we'd get that fruit. It's there for us to take it. The tree is healthier when it's harvested. There are so many wins in harvesting this stuff that I really find it difficult to not do it.
It really seems that based on the amount of volunteers you get that your message is spreading. You've had a lot of success with organizing. What tools you are using for educating and organizing people?
We've been really fortunate with people like yourself who can get the message, appreciate it and want to spread it, whether it's through blogs or a TV interview or a random article. But the truth is, people just coming on a pick we will kind of evangelize what we are doing and want to do it. People have come on a pick and they'd say, "I'd like to do this in my county." And what instances of that has actually materialized into is these people becoming super volunteers and then leading a harvest once a month in their own county, they bring in -- and it's just this kind of replication and rippling out. And social media has been a huge part of it. We only have about a thousand people on Facebook, but using the social media instead of stuffing people's mail boxes is making a statement about environmentally sound practices, and there is no reason why more of it can't be done.
How did you personally get involved in the food movement?
I got into food during 9/11. That was my big thing, because I turned inward. When all these people started saying, who is the enemy and terrorist out there? My thing was like, "I want to have a dinner party, I want to spend whatever time I have with my friends and I want to eat well." And that turned into a passion for food and it turned into learning how to cook properly and semi-professionally, doing some personal chef gigs in between jobs. Once you get into food it's really hard to get away from it. The culture really entices you. It was getting into that world also seeing it as this democratization, this common language people speak whether you're in Italy or you're in Africa, people gather around food. It became a way for me to be personally rewarded and creatively doing my own projects with an artistic expression, but it also has food at its core.
It's this personal connection with food that I think is very strongly exhibited through what you are doing. It gives people a connection to where their food is coming from.
Yeah, there's no question. You know, there is a deep pride in it which when you produce food. It's a feeling of satisfaction, of sharing. I just came in after lunch with a bag of tomatoes and I'm like, it was nice to be able to share this with people. I don't want to just keep this at home and grow these for myself, but someone else should enjoy what's coming out of the earth in my backyard. It nurtures an overall sense of sharing through the culture in which people want to give and do good. We need more of that.
You produce a lot, and it's not just in the food movement. You are a professional photographer, writer and filmmaker. How you kind of see the interconnection of all these projects?
I think there's an underlying theme of community. It's just a fascination with what makes people connect, whether it's through food or something else. If it's through one of my photo projects, it could be Golden States of Grace, which is about religion and how people connect through religion. In our case here, it's through gleaning, the model of harvest food by and for communities. We like to go to events and celebrations, which are not just gleaning events, but they are ways to thank the people in Los Angeles, whether they are volunteers or donors for their ongoing support of us. It's making things happen in a way that feel like our city is not 8 million, but maybe 800. I can honestly say the last month or two, I've gone to a few events, either birthdays or conferences, and the world does feel like it's getting smaller. It feels like there are people creating new varieties of foods to market, or they are cheese makers or they are establishing a new farmers market in the area. It's something we all can get behind and support and we all should, and they are doing it with the same generosity of spirit. We're not doing these things, I mean, so many people I know are taking a left-hand turn out of marketing, out of banking, out of real estate and they are taking it out of necessarily more financially lucrative lives and into more spiritual, and I think, emotionally lucrative lives. And I just came on fulltime to do this six months ago, and I feel so incredibly rewarded in a way that I never expected.
What new challenges and projects are you encountering now?
We just announced a new farmer's market recovery program that's going to start in a few weeks, which will allow us to, in a systematized way, to pilot what we glean at one of the largest markets in Los Angeles and getting that to agencies much like we do when we harvest. But that needs funding and it needs patrons. So we'll be out shaking the trees to get money to sustain that. We also have a new branch in Ventura which has an insane amount of produce, and we have a very, very overstressed coordinator there, half time, at probably 35 hours a week, and we need to fund her.
So we're getting great support, we're getting great partnerships, but we do need for people who would, let's say normally fund LA food bank or more how do you say, inside-the- box solutions to hunger, to realize that we are a legitimate piece of the equation and that we need to be sustained as well. And we're also doing social enterprising. Our managing director, Meg Glasser, has created this wonderful series of food preserving workshops called Canning. And they are in their second year and they sold out both years, and basically they are quarterly classes with people who are doing innovation around food and food preserving. And they are teaching them in their kitchens and on their farms teaching groups of 10 to 15 people how to make goat cheese, how to make a gourmet jams and jellies, and how to start your own businesses. So we're raising money through teaching and education, as well, and it's a way that we can again, get our mission out there.
So my next question seems silly, because you are doing what you love, but I'll ask it anyway. What do you do in your free time?
Well I've got a relatively new dog. He's a handful. The dogs that were with me when we founded Food Forward sadly passed. And our new dog is like a child. He's sitting here looking at me now like, "Huh?" He's a Catahoula Leopard dog. It's a Louisiana red neck hunting dog. He's a rescue. He's a sweetheart. I'm also a huge music enthusiast, whether it's electronic or classic rock or whatever, I'm a huge music person. And food. I'm often cooking for friends at least once a week.
I'd also like to tell you that the Migrant Project will be coming to the Chelsea market this fall as an exhibit. It will be September through the beginning of November, for two months. It's really cool. I've long wanted to come there and we have a sponsor and the markets are great, there's a lot of great traffic there and it's a great place for people to get see it.
That's so exciting! It's a great way for you to inspire more people. On that note, I was wondering who your heroes are and who inspires you?
There's a bunch of people. I'd say Edward R. Murrow is at the top of the list. The godfather of broadcast and investigative journalism. Dorthea Lang, photographer would be high on the list. I'll leave it at that.