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Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source software of the year
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It is now roughly 40-plus years since Richard Stallman released his text editor with the words "Emacs General Public License" in the documentation and 20 some years since the world first saw the phrase "GNU General Public License." Back in those days, finding the best open source software was relatively simple. There was Emacs, and then came vi. Choosing between them was never easy, and many still argue over the best editor.
In 2010, the choices aren't any easier, and now there are many, many more packages available. Sourceforge.net claims more than 310,000 projects and GitHub more than 1 million. Before going much further, let us apologize profusely for not sorting through the millions of projects to find all of the very best.
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If finding all of the absolute best piles of code isn't possible, then let me be more precise. The word "best" here can mean many things. It is sometimes equivalent to "most promising," "most surprising", "most subversive," "most unnerving," "most opportune," "most happening," or some weird, inchoate mixture of them all. The one thing it always means is "most useful" -- to developers, IT administrators, and users on a business network.
So we grant that our idea of "best" is not always fair to the solid, upstanding citizens. I still use vi every day and Emacs once a week. They're incredibly reliable and very useful, but they're no longer interesting or notable. A complete list of the very best would start by enumerating the projects that everyone forgot about long ago because they just did their job without fanfare. (See InfoWorld's "The greatest open source software of all time" and "Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers" for a better list of these projects.)
So before sorting through today's "best" open source projects and how they're reshaping the technology business and the computing landscape, we'll first pause to offer all due respect to the solid chunks of bedrock that we take for granted every clock cycle. If you want to skip the introductions and steer straight to the winners' circle, just follow these links to our slideshows:
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Private parties or companies doing business in the Yellowstone National Park under authority from the Government may be permitted, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Army, to use electricity furnished by the electric lighting and power plant of Fort Yellowstone and Mammoth Hot Springs at actual cost to the Government for operation, maintenance, and depreciation of the plant and 10 per centum additional, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army.
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"In October and November, we are notifying about 15 million customers, through their regular bill messages, that we are applying credits to their accounts due to mistaken past data charges," said Mary Coyne, deputy general counsel of Verizon Wireless. "We will mail former customers refund checks. In most cases, these credits are in the $2 to $6 range; some will receive larger credits or refunds."
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He made a startling -- and, IMHO, startlingly brilliant -- suggestion: Once you've narrowed choices down to two or three cars that you could be serious about buying, don'ttest-drive them. Instead, rent them.
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It's no secret that it costs more to be fat -- higher health care costs, higher prices for plus-size clothing, the extra cost of double airline seats and larger caskets.
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The automaker has much in common with Webvan, a Silicon Valley company that flopped after going public 10 years ago.
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Every 10 years or so, the smart folks in Silicon Valley select some inefficient industry run by dummies that they want to set straight and revolutionize. Ten years ago, there were smart entrepreneurs (with Internet backgrounds), with even smarter venture capitalists behind them, who started a company called Webvan. It was designed to transform grocery shopping. People would no longer go to brick-and-mortar stores, they said. Instead they'd buy all their groceries online.
After raising hundreds of millions of dollars and going public, Webvan failed. The smart Web entrepreneurs overlooked some basics about running a grocery business -- online or offline -- like the need for big, expensive distribution centers. Maybe if they'd had some grocery execs in the fold (on the management team or board), they might have thought of that "key success factor" for operating in that industry.
But before their failure, had they been asked about bringing in some industry talent, their response might have been: We're trying to re-create this industry, so we don't want to tie ourselves down to the old ideas that have failed.
Ah, how important it is to balance "fresh eyes" to look at industry challenges anew with "gray hair" wisdom that can tell you which potholes to avoid stepping into.
In Silicon Valley, with lots of money, ego and talent, you can will a lot of companies into existence -- especially if they are able to capture some exciting buzz. However, success breeds arrogance. Webvan was Exhibit A of how that arrogance can result in a high-profile failure.
There's another Webvan-like company that just went public a few weeks ago and is heading for the same kind of ignominious failure by the end of 2012: Tesla Motors (TSLA).
Tesla shares many similarities with Webvan. The company was founded in 2003, set on revolutionizing the auto industry by providing the world's leading electric cars. You could argue that it's been losing money ever since.
By 2004, it needed cash. Enter Elon Musk, a PayPal co-founder with cash in his jeans since eBay (EBAY) acquired PayPal. Musk, 39, is now chairman, CEO, and product architect of Tesla. He has an explicit employment contract that will keep him in that role until the end of 2012.
The company -- thanks to Musk's involvement, his worthwhile mission of creating non-fossil-fuel-powered cars, and the pixie dust he brought from his past PayPal success -- found it easy to raise money in Silicon Valley. It attracted investments from Google (GOOG) co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, eBay co-founder Jeff Skoll and a host of well-know VC firms. Most people are familiar with its racy Roadster model -- currently Tesla's only car, with a list price of more than $100,000.
Last June, Tesla went public at $17. Two days later, its price jumped to more than $30. Three days later, its price had dropped below $16. It's now more than $19, after its first earnings release since its IPO disclosed that it had lost a record $39 million in the quarter and $68 million in the first six months of the year.
The recent S-1 filing makes for some interesting reading on Tesla. People who now express surprise about Mark Hurd's expenses leading to his ouster at HP (HPQ) obviously weren't reading the SEC filings a year ago. I think there are even more troubling details in the Tesla filing -- especially the "risk factors" section.
Here are the main reasons I'm betting against Tesla and why I think it could be the next Webvan:
- No senior auto experience on the management team. Tesla has chosen to build out the management team without senior auto industry people (although they do have people who held junior positions at car companies). When asked about this recently, Musk defended the decision because they are trying to recreate the inefficient auto industry. Why should they listen to Detroit people?
- Revolving door at the top. Musk is the fourth CEO in three years at Tesla. Start-ups can have their share of management drama but this company is still going through its adolescence as a company while being public. Management instability breeds more management instability.
- CEO narcissism. Musk had a role in the recent Iron Man 2 movie, and was an inspiration for the movie's character Tony Stark. He lives in Bel Air. He's been a guest on the Stephen Colbert show and Time's list of the 100 most fascinating people. If Musk was a woman, we'd probably hear more comparisons between him and Carly Fiorina. Anytime a CEO starts to care more about his celebrity status than his business, it usually suggests he's distracted from the business -- which might start to show itself in the company's operating results in the quarters to come. The company's second-quarter results were a good start to that.
- Tesla has bet its future on its next car: The Model S. Very shortly, Tesla will stop manufacturing the Roadster. Its viability as a company will depend on its next car: The Model S. The car is a family oriented sedan and looks like a Volkswagen Passat. It hopes to start delivering the car in 2012 but it could take longer (according to their filing). There is no clear plan yet for how it will sell the car (other than through the internet and its small boutique stores in rich cities like Monaco). The Roadsters have sold only a few thousand, so Tesla will quickly have to learn how to sell its next car.
- Tesla has no manufacturing experience as a company. Its Roadster is built entirely by Lotus -- not Tesla. The Model S will be built by Tesla and they just bought the old Toyota Nummi plant in Fremont, CA, to do this. The purchase price Tesla is paying is $42 million, which will eat up most of its available $69 million in cash.
- Tesla has not shown it can make money. It has lost $237 million from inception through Sept. 2009. It sells an overpriced Roadster and will likely sell an overpriced sedan. The only reason the company is still in business is because of a $465 million Department of Energy loan. On one hand, I support the government offering incentives for the development of alternative energy. On the other hand, I have a problem with the government picking winners and giving generous loans to a company that has never made a dime and decided to pay its Silicon Valley millionaire CEO a total compensation package worth $25 million (not including money he would have made through the IPO in June) last year. Why does Tesla deserve half a billion dollars from U.S. taxpayers? If the company would go bankrupt today without that support, how does the government justify providing that assistance?
- Musk treats the CEO position at Tesla as a part-time job. At the moment, Musk holds three CEO positions, including Tesla's. His other focus areas are his space exploration company and his solar energy company. Maybe this flies in Silicon Valley for start-ups, but it's just not acceptable for a Nasdaq-listed company to have a part-time CEO. If Musk wants to be the CEO of Tesla because it's a great opportunity, then be the best damn CEO. If he wants to fiddle around with a space company, then he should go do that.
- Musk should get his brother off the board and bring in some more auto industry experience. At the moment, Musk's 37-year-old younger brother Kimbal sits on the Tesla board. Kimbal is a chef, with a restaurant in Boulder, Colo., and a Web company. If he wasn't the CEO's brother, he likely wouldn't be on the board. He should have stepped down pre-IPO and made room for more auto industry "gray hair."
The bottom line is that Tesla is going to bleed cash from now until it starts selling its Model S in 2012 or later. It will need to raise money, with a high chance of launch delays.
Electric cars will be the future, but I'm betting they won't be Tesla's electric cars.
At the time of publication, Jackson held a long position in GOOG and a short position in TSLA.
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- Vanilla -- 2 teaspoons
- Coconut cream -- 1 cup
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Puree the bananas in a blender or food processor. There should be enough puree to make 4 cups.
- Mix together the brown sugar and arrowroot or cornstarch. Add this mixture and the vanilla to the bananas and process well. There should not be any lumps of starch. Adjust sugar to taste.
- Butter a 2-quart baking dish and pour in the puree. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes, or until the pudding is firm and bubbling. Remove from oven and allow to cool. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until well chilled.
- Cut into cubes and place into a large serving bowl or in individual bowls. Top with a dollop of coconut cream, a little more brown sugar and serve.
- Try substituting papaya, mango, pineapple or other tropical fruits for some of the bananas. Just make sure there is a total of 4 cups of fruit puree. Ripe plantains can also be substituted for the bananas. For juicier fruits, you will probably have to add more arrowroot or cornstarch.
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- Coconut cream is the thick coconut milk that rises to the top of a can of coconut milk. Don't shake the can before you open it and you can skim it right off the top.
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Tahitian ladies living in Noumea make poe using tomatoes ... I bought it from a market stall..... absolutely delicious, refreshing .... good as a salad extra beside the usual lettuce things, and I enjoyed it
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I love Po'e whether its Pumpkin, Banana or any other. I grew up eating Po'e that my Tahitian Aunty would make and now that I'm older I find myself wanting to make it. In fact, my Mom dropped off a local Pumpkin from her backyard and I have Coconut Cream ready to be used, yummy! Aloha
Potato starch
when you use potato starch, do you need to ue less?
You should probably use the
You should probably use the same amount. Potato starch has about the same thickening power as both arrowroot and cornstarch.
Authentic recipe
This recipe is very authentic. I swapped out the cornstarch for tapioca starch & used fresh pumpkin instead of bananas. It brought back memories of being in Tahiti :) Try it! It is also great for anyone avoiding gluten.
didn't really work for me
i followed this recipe to the T and it still didn't come out. I used 4 cups of pureed papayas and when I took it out of the oven it was mush. I even put it back in for another 30 minutes and thought maybe it needed to be cooled. After cooling overnight it's still mushy under. I'm not sure if this is the texture the recipe calls for. My memory of poke was a bit more firm and tot... maybe I should try again with tapioca? Or maybe at a higher heat? Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
More cornstarch
It's probably because papaya has more liquid than bananas. You would need to add more cornstarch to thicken it better. I would try 1/4 to 1/3 cup more cornstarch or arrowroot. Thanks for pointing this out. I have updated the recipe to mention this.
I use yams and it comes out DELICIOUS- use to go to Tahiti in the 60s and 70s and eat alot of this and poisson cru- yummy!!!
is it supposed to look
is it supposed to look really gross?
Does this need 6 to 8
Does this need 6 to 8 bananas or 6 to 8 chunks of banana? Should I buy 6 to 8 bananas or less?
The recipe calls for 6 to 8
The recipe calls for 6 to 8 bananas, each peeled and cut into chunks. Hope that helps!


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We've all seen tattoos that range from the terrible to the generic to the sublime. But one particular tattoo may stand out as the poster-child for bad ink – at least on the Internet.
"I couldn't believe my eyes when this guy walked in and showed me this project. I think my jaw literally hit the floor," writes tattoo artist Scott Versago on his Facebook page.
The tattoo, based on a picture of a blushing bride, bears little resemblance to the smiling woman in the photograph. The garish teeth and hot pink cursive only helped earn the tattoo an online reputation of one of the worst portrait tattoos ever.
The story gets worse. Versago, a tattoo artist with Empire Ink in Akron, Ohio says the man with the tattoo got it to remember his wife -- who was killed in a house fire just three months after they got married. He says the man was then left to raise his three children as a single dad.
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Among theater companies, SpeakEasy leads the field with 11 nominations, ahead of Arts-Emerson with 10, the ART with nine, the Huntington Theatre Company and Lyric Stage with seven each, and Company One with six. The Boston Theater Critics Association will give the awards in a ceremony May 13 on the Paramount Center Mainstage.


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Guys I cannot tell you how much I loved Neneh Cherry back in the day. And that day was way too young. I may have been...
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"I have some amazing guardian angels looking over me," said Gail King.Late Saturday night in the 6000 block of Stahelin on Detroit's west side, "all I heard was a big cannon sound or a firecracker sound," King explained. "Then I noticed that my dog made a yelp and he was on his back and I think he went into seizure because his paws were flopping."King's six-year-old yellow lab Niko had been shot."I jumped up and I went to the side and I looked out, and I [saw] a man pointing a gun at me.""She's worried about her dog. I'm like check yourself. Make sure you [haven't been] shot, and then she found out she was shot," said Martin Osemlak.In the chest, but she didn't even realize it. King was more concerned about her companion refusing to go in the ambulance until her neighbor promised to take care of Niko."We eventually got the dog to the animal hospital," Osemlak said."His whole upper jaw and part of his lower jaw were pretty much destroyed on the left side of his face," said Dr. Jeffrey Dizik.Niko spent six hours in surgery and got close to 100 stitches. He is on lots of pain medication, but is doing much better now after the home invasion that could've killed him and his best friend."I think Niko saved my life because if he wouldn't have ran to the front door ... the person would've came in," said King. "I don't know if he would've just robbed me, if he would've shot me, did both. I think my dog saved my life."Thousands of dollars in vet bills is something she can't afford, but now she does not have to worry about that."The donations have been non-stop of people wanting to help Niko, and if there's money left over, if the owner needs some help with her medical bills, we'll use some of the money there, and then we'll also try and keep some set aside in case he needs some future surgery down the road," Dizik said."I am so grateful for everybody. I can't thank everybody enough," said King.She will need plastic surgery to repair the damage left behind from her gunshot wound. Meanwhile, that shooter is still out there. Detroit police officers, who King said responded quickly, are investigating.If you would like to make a donation, you can visit http://saveniko.chipin.com/niko or call (313) 389-1700.
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Economist Nouriel Roubini thinks 2013 will be a lousy year, even if the fiscal cliff gets taken care of. But things could actually get worse. Here's how.
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The U.S. fiscal cliff issue doesn't get resolved. That means tax rates go up and government spending gets cut. The result, many economists believe, Roubini among them, will be another recession. We should note that President Obama and House and Senate leaders met Friday and swore they'd get the problem fixed. That was enough to turn a bad day for stocks into a winner.
The European recession gets nasty. This would occur if Greece runs out of cash (a real possibility) and leaves the euro currency in a messy way. Read that as this: Greece basically defaults on its debt and plunges global credit markets into chaos.
China's economy tanks. It's possible. Real estate in many Chinese markets has been overbuilt, and construction spending has slowed. The Shanghai Composite Index, the benchmark Chinese stock index, is down 34% since April 2011 and 67% since peaking in November 2007. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index, however, suggests things aren't that bad. The index is up 15% this year.
War erupts in the Middle East. This assumes Israel and Iran somehow go to war, not a huge possibility by itself. But the rising tensions between Israel and Syria and Israel and Egypt over what Israeli forces might do in the Gaza Strip could cause major disruptions in crude oil markets, with crude oil pushing toward $200 a barrel with serious effects on the global economy.
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Read the book "Atlas Shrugged" - it really sums this all up in one HUGE novel.
My life has now been determined by specific ethnic groups that voted based on color - and an age bracket that has net worth in negative figures and no jobs.
Worse yet, no motivation to change it that actually required getting off the couch.
So yeah...the worst thing would be Russia and China making a play in the Middle East...and us being incapable politically and militarily of doing anything about it...
When Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz...well, that's going to be an interesting day to be sure...
It's already started....
Worst case senario, Obama re-elected, continues his war on business and the middle class, Ben continues his printing to infinity and beyond. For thoise democrats too stupid to do the math 40 billion is about $480/family/month. He could just send each family a check, but instead he is letting Obama continue to reward his special interest groups...
Buy guns/ammo, Specie (Au, Ag, Pl), and stocks, and stash some money overseas where Obama cannot get at it. It would be wise to invest in diversified Foreign stocks. Investing in Obama's America is like asking a Jew to invest in Hitler's Germany...
"What's the worst-case scenario for stocks?"
I don't believe for one second that anyone knows the answer to this question. I'm certain they won't guarantee their opinion for a fixed price.
But, I do think we might all eventually find out the answer for ourselves the hard way. I guarantee it.
The worst case scenerio for stocks? They all fall to 0. It will not happen. There are cascading effects if the Fed limitlessly prints money to purchase its' own debt.
I do not see any reason to think that stocks will take off, but they won't drop to 0. I would start loading up on Medical stocks.
Maybe we could get the Feds to talk to Texas about how they can run their Government within its budget. They might learn a thing or two. But, D.C. can't find its own a** with both hands.
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Despite unpredictable weather in parts of Texas, the Mid-South and Southeast, cotton showed its ability to withstand heavy rainfall and cool temperatures during harvest season. Yields were down in the Mid-South, but, as one agronomist put it, "the situation could have been a lot worse." The crop showed remarkable strength in the face of adversity.
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Running back Adrian Peterson meets with Twin Cities reporters on Thursdays but he discussed the helmet situation in a conference call with Tampa Bay Buccaneers media today. NFL vice president of officiating Mike Pereira said today in a radio interview that Peterson should have been penalized 15 yards for removing his helmet in the end zone after scoring the winning touchdown on Sunday.
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CONTEST CLOSED: Win tickets to a Bay Area screening of Vegucated! »
Thanks for participating, everyone! And congratulations to the winners!
I keep thinking I have a short attention span, but I love to read, so maybe it's a problem with audio-visual stimuli: I have a really hard time watching an entire movie. I pause it so often it takes me three days to finish, or I'll keep it on and do a bunch of educational quizzes on Sporcle (Always Be Self-Improving), or I'll put it on as background while I cook or clean—I am bad at watching movies.
A movie that did keep my attention for its entire run was Vegucated, the documentary about three omnivores who adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. It's only about 90 minutes, but it's well made and totally compelling. Despite not being its target audience—I don't need like 10 minutes of animal-abuse footage and slaughterhouse stats to convince me my lifestyle choices are morally correct—I watched the entire thing without getting wiggly or checking my phone-clock once.
Vegucated documents an interesting experiment in an entertaining way, the director/editor/writer/narrator, Marisa Miller Wolfson, is smart and funny, and she chose her subjects well. They're totally sympathetic: You cheer when they succeed; you feel bad when they cry. I absolutely recommend Vegucated. Go see it! With your friends! And family! And everyone you know who isn't vegan, because duh they should be and Vegucated can help get them there!
Specifically, you in the Bay Area have two chances to see it, on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, and on Wednesday, Oct. 25 at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco. Buy tickets for the Berkeley screening here, and for the S.F. screening here. Best part: You can win tickets for either event, thanks to our pal and event producer Karine Brighten! Isn't she great? Thanks, Karine!
We are giving away one pair and two single tickets to the SF event, and two single tickets to the Berkeley event. To win, leave a comment with two pieces of information: 1. Which screening you'd like to attend ("Berkeley" or "San Francisco"); and 2. Recommend me a movie that isn't totally boring! I will pick winners by Friday, Oct. 14. This should give all you non-winners plenty of time to buy your way in.
You want to see this movie! So come on and enter the contest, already.
[photos by Jessica Mahady for Vegucated]
∞ posted at 14:51 by seriousmeaveness
I didn't make it to Veg Speed Dating at Saturn Cafe as I seem resistant to anything not resembling dying alone and being eaten by my cat, surrounded by take-out and delivery boxes in my mess of an apartment. It looks like it was a fun time, as showcased by Eco-gal, who made this snazzy little video of the shenanigans that went down.
My friend Mike (we're friends, right? Even if we've only commented on each others blogs?) attended and does not only have a starring role in the vid (check out the 2:01 mark) he also had very positive (read:not terrifying) things to say:
I thought the event was amazing. There was enough VegENERGY (like that? new word) in the room to turn Emeril vegan! In all seriousness, there were a ton of really wonderful people at the event, and Karen Brighten did a fabulous job setting it up.
Even though there was a wide range of ages, it was fun to have platonic conversations with fellow compassionate humans. Often times, I feel super alone and jaded that I don't have more vegan friends. It was so nice to have a conversation that didn't start with, "So, where do you get your protein?" If there is another event in the future, then I will totally be there! Unless, a certain someone snags me off the market!
Ladies?! Who needs speed dating?! I'll be your personal vegan matchmaker! I've watched enough Millionaire Matchmaker to know what I'm doing. Just kidding, Karine, I'm totally at your next event.
∞ posted at 09:22 by jennybradley
Berkeley Vegan Earth Day is Friday (that's tomorrow)! »
Yo, all you vegans! And hippies! And people who enjoy having a great time! All of you will hopefully be served well at tomorrow's Berkeley Vegan Earth Day! It's actually not a whole day, it starts at 7 p.m., and I believe it's a film screening and then a panel discussion? The site is a bit confusing and the about us page is just about the event planners, not about the actual event. I am bad at figuring stuff out, so that's why I'm a blogger. Wait what? Anyway, it should be fun, and we'll be on the scene doing some HARD! HITTING! INVESTIGATIVE! JOURNALISM! Or you know, eating cinnamon rolls from Sugar Plum Bakery. See you there!
∞ posted at 12:03 by laurahooperb
Adopting bunnies, eating ramen, pie making contests & more! It's your weekend activities! »
We're here to make your weekend amazing! Do the damn thing(s):
Saturday, Oct. 16
The House Rabbit Society and Harvest Home Sanctuary will have their regular adoption event today! Go see the bunnies from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at George in Berkeley! Harvest Home Sanctuary and House Rabbit Society buns will be waiting for you in the Fourth Street Shopping Center at 1824 Fourth St. Why not look at some of them now?
It's the Berkeley's Walk for Farm Animals today! Go! Walk! Be awesome and help animals and walk it out for a good cause!
Help a Brother Out bakesale and street food party fundraiser in the mission. All sorts of delicious baked goods (in the afternoon!) and street food (in the evening!) and GO!
SwapSF is back! I feel like this counts as vegan because when people obtain leather shoes or woolen sweaters through trade, they're stopping the supply-and-demand cycle that keeps new leather shoes and woolen sweaters in production. y/y? Also it's good for the environment, and SwapSF always has drink specials because the organizers love drinking in the early afternoon. Buy a $6 presale ticket and bring your tradeable clothes to Mighty at 119 Utah St. (between 15th and Alameda Streets); the swap goes from noon to 3 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 17
It's the 8th Annual Spice of Life Festival in Berkeley! From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Shattuck Avenue between Rose and Virginia Streets (five blocks!), there will be all kinds of Berkeleyania—an "eco-carnival," an "interactive nature sculpture project," a puppet show—but also awesome foodstuffs from places we love: Saturn Cafe, Scream Sorbet, Flacos; plus some places that sound like they should be vegan, like Raw Daddy Foods, Chick 'o Peas falafel, Skylite Snowballs; and Chairman Bao makes a crispy tofu bun. Best: it's free. Have fun, East Bay!
Mission Pie's fourth annual Pie Contest is today! Did you enter? You still have until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15 to do so! Just send an email with your name, type of pie, and contact information, then bring your pie to Mission Pie at 2901 Mission St. at 25th Street between 2 and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday!
Did you want to come sample the pies? Show up at the same place around the same time, pie-free. Easy-peasy.
Southern Ramen and Blues from 6 to 10 p.m. at Gravel and Gold—we told you all about it already, remember?
Wednesday, Oct. 20
There will be a protest against the Grand National Rodeo held at the Cow Palace (2600 Geneva Ave. in Daly City) on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week. The protests are scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m., and banners and signs will be provided. This is all the information we have now; we'll give you more as we get it.
Friday, Oct. 22
Next weekend already? Yes, it's important: Carol J. Adams is speaking at UC Berkeley! The Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy put this together; aren't they great? Ms. Adams will speak from 2 to 4 p.m. in 2060 VLSB on campus; "many vegan treats" will be provided, and Ms. Adams' books The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Pornography of Meat will be available for purchase.
Even later this month!
On Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the Saturn Cafe in Berkeley (2175 Allston Way at Fullton Street), Stephanie Redcross of Vegan Mainstream will have answers to your questions about making your vegan blog the best vegan blog it can be! This seminar/Q&A is called Unleashing the Power of Efficient Vegan Marketing, is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m., and is free with registration. Naturally, Karine Brighten Events is hosting.
Don't forget about the East Bay Vegan Bakesale! It's happening on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., in front of Issues (20 Glen Ave. at Piedmont) in Oakland. All proceeds will benefit Mickaboo Companion Bird Rescue and the East Bay Children's Book Project. Want to volunteer (of course you do!)? Email the organizers!
∞ posted at 14:29 by seriousmeaveness
Guest post: The first-ever San Francisco vegan fashion show! »
When I became a vegan, a list of "projects" arose for me. Looking at my life as different projects makes challenges feel more manageable and gives me an excuse to do Cher's squeal from Clueless—"Ooh, project!"
There was the "Find a Vegan Cheese" project; the "Find a Cruelty-Free Body Product" project and—being obsessed with fashion—the "Create a Vegan Wardrobe" project.
I gotta tell ya, as much as I enjoy researching my favorite labels for the 3 percent of their merchandise that's vegan, it's still a daunting task. So when a clothing or footwear line comes along that is ENTIRELY vegan, I am beyond happy. And when a vegan fashion show arises to showcase the efforts of vegan designers and entrepreneurs, you don't just sit by. These designers not only have the challenge of researching and acquiring legitimately vegan and ethically-produced materials, but also of becoming profitable in an industry that has mostly no regard for animal suffering. So you go to the show. You go, and you support them.
San Francisco's first-ever vegan fashion show (Canada's ahead of us on this one) happened last Saturday, as part of the 11th Annual World Veg Fest. Karine Brighten organized the show pro bono; a planner of eco- and animal-friendly events for places like Farm Sanctuary, Nature's Express, and Cinnaholic, she's also vegan. The audience packed the auditorium to see the lovely vegan models walking the show in cruelty-free clothing, accessories, and footwear. Rory Freedman of Skinny Bitch emceed the event.
Six vegan labels showed: Mission Savvy provided pieces from various designers split into five collections that each benefit different animal welfare causes. Five percent of proceeds are donated to related organizations. Cri de Cœur had footwear made with animal-free, eco-friendly materials and without toxic PVC or vinyl. Vaute Couture brought animal-free, classic and trend-conscious outerwear, tees, and sweatshirts made of high-performance, recycled, recyclable, upcycled, closed-loop, zero-waste fabrics and deadstock, and vegetable ivory buttons. Melie Blanco supplied affordable but luxurious faux-leather handbags. Reco Jeans brought their recycled high-end denim. Lion's Share Industries had eco-friendly T-shirts adorned with vegan-artist-commissioned graphics. Pansy Maiden provided handmade handbags of animal-free, fair-trade, plant-dyed, organic, reclaimed/vintage fabrics and animal-derivative-free glue.
One of the brilliant aspects of the show was splitting the event into sections to highlight each line, including a description. This was a nice way to educate the audience, many of whom may not have known much about these particular designers or the vegan movement in the fashion industry in general.
From a purely design perspective, I had mixed feelings about the pieces—just like how I would feel at any fashion show! Because I'm not a hater, here are the items that I loved and with which I would now like to fill my closet:
1. The adorable "Upcycled Indigo Windbreaker" from Vaute Couture (made with the remnants of another Vaute coat's lining), with an elasticized empire waist, oversized gathered collar, and bubble hem. [Ed.: LAURA WANTS ONE VERY BADLY];
2. The edgy "Stella Cutout Cage Wedge", which wraps the feet in bars of faux patent leather;
3. A cropped black blazer with gold trim from Mission Savvy.
As for the venue, I think Veg Fest was a perfect place to have the first show, because it was the most visible way to promote it to the vegan community. For future shows—and according to Rory Freedman, there will be one next year—I'd love to see a more luxe location, one that can house an show focused on style in a way that lives up to the pieces being showcased. A night spot, a gallery, a loft…. The auditorium at the County Fair Building kinda screams "I also did my high school play here."
Still, that a vegan fashion show even happened, that there is a fashion community that cares enough about animal rights and environmental welfare to put a show like this together speaks volumes about how far veganism has come. Seeing a group of designers and entrepreneurs who have navigated their way to success while sticking to their ethics is beyond inspirational. Here's hoping that their efforts will not only inspire current designers to rethink their practices, but that they will ignite something in a new set of vegan artists and visionaries who may look at a pair of shoes at Saks and think "if only…"
Check out more photos, including behind-the-scenes shots, here.
This is Vi Zahajszky's second post for Vegansaurus (you can see her first here!). Vi left her motherland of Hungary as a child and has spent most of her life in Boston and New York. Two years ago she drove across the country to San Francisco with husband Chris Carlozzi and a rescue pup named The Bandit. Here, among other things, she's studying fashion design and pattern-making, and has plans to develop a vegan clothing line. Also, she's enjoying no blizzards. Photo enhancing by Chris Carlozzi.
∞ posted at 15:09 by laurahooperb
Calling vegan designers, models, and photographers: San Francisco's first vegan fashion show hits the runway this October! »
I think that about says it all! Well, here's a bit more info if you're the curious type. If you think you fit the bill, contact event organizer, Karine Brighten. The event will take place at World Veg Festival in Golden Gate Park on October 2 and is emceed by a Skinny Bitch. Fun! Get on it, folks!
∞ posted at 12:02 by laurahooperb
The Beehive Market! »
The Beehive Market is a new flea/farmers/food market that's opening on Saturday, June 12 in the parking lot of the Berkeley Adult School. It's the ultimate hippie mart (what? you love it, you composting, communal hot-tubbing, vegan psychopath!); it runs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and there looks to be lots of vegan vendors, including some I haven't heard of (yay! more vegan food! bring it!) and also, Scream Sorbet. I had the pleasure of trying this delicious shiz at the farmers market in Marin (I'm fancy) and it was good times. I'm not normally a big fan of sorbets (I WANT A REAL DESSERT DAMMIT) but this stuff knocked me out. It's the whole package plus it does its taxes. I enjoyed the cashew caramel flavor—it was creamy and delicious like WHOA. The little dude running the booth was kind of a pill but I can imagine dealing with my fat ass requesting the 11th taste of the same flavor (what! Samples are free! That's why they're called free samples!), that even a man with the patience of the Buddha would start to get a little testy. Whaves, their product is quite superior and they're gonna blow up so HOP ON BOARD THE SCREAM TRAIN OR GET LEFT BEHIND, SKINNY.
Point is, get your ass to The Beehive Market on Saturday, June 12, and every Saturday after that.
Ooh: also Sarah Smart from Millennium will be selling her Rocket Ship Ice Cream too so HEY NOW.
To prove how amazing this chick is, here's a picture of Shannon and Flori of Cinnaholic's Ice Cream Wedding cake (that's right, I said, ICE CREAM WEDDING CAKE) made by one Rocket Ship Ice Cream:
DAAAAAANG, Son. It tasted even better than it looked. Hate on, haters! Also, the wedding was amazing and they are the best!
LATE BREAKING BIT O' BAD NEWS: They're apparently roasting AN ENTIRE PIG at this sustainable, green, event where they encourage you to "leave with a rescued bunny." Yes! Let's save one animal and feast on another! Makes so much sense! I'm bummed; I thought it was gonna be an all-veg affair. I mean, if we can't expect that from the Berkeley hippies, what can we expect? Oh that's right, body odor and a superiority complex. Oh and jerking it to Alice Waters posing naked with only a copy of The Omnivore's Dilemma covering her delicate bits.* I'm sorry, you can't feel all high and mighty, Slow Food Nation, when you're saving all of the dead pig for yourself. If these people really gave two shits about sustainability, they would eat vegan 95 percent of the time and donate the few animals that they can raise and murder "responsibly" to food deserts. Right? Isn't that how we're gonna feed the the country? Oh but you want all the "ethically" raised and "lovingly" murdered dead animals for yourselves, don't you? You rich hippie wackadoos. ANYHOO, write the Beehive Market a polite email asking that they not do the pig roast because it's going to alienate the people who actually give a shit about creating a sustainable future.
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19 ways to celebrate summer and decrease your impact on the earth:
Before the Bash
1. Call or send an Evite to your guests, and skip the cute little note cards. In addition to saving trees, your family and friends will get quicker notice about your party—which also means swifter RSVPs.
2. Ask your friends to make a donation to the celebrant's favorite charity if your get-together is a gift-giving occasion. This eliminates unwanted and unused gifts.
3. Encourage carpooling to your party by giving out the names and phone numbers of guests who live close to one another. You could also offer a small prize to anyone who uses alternative transportation, like a bike or scooter, helping to inspire others to do their part cutting back on the greenhouse gasses emitted by cars each year.
4. Scout yard sales and thrift shops for plates to use for outdoor entertaining. It'll add an eclectic look to your table, and if each US household replaced just one 40-count package of paper plates with recyclable alternatives, we'd save 487,000 trees.
5. Take reusable cloth bags with you when shopping for party food. Traditional plastic grocery bags are not recyclable and may take as long as 1,000 years to break down.
6. Select food items, like grains, nuts, and candies from bulk bins at the store so you can eliminate all that extra packaging waste. Toxic chemicals are used to make many plastic packages, and huge energy resources go into creating them.
7. Invest in a propane- or solar-powered stove if you often cook outdoors. Barbecuing with traditional charcoal briquettes sends smoke and particulate matter into the air, adding to pollution. Charcoal lighter fluid also emits volatile organic compounds, which studies have shown can cause health problems for many and may leave a residue of toxic chemicals on grilled food.
8. Spruce up your flower beds by getting rid of the weeds. Use a 20 percent concentration of acetic vinegar instead of a chemical pesticide. (Do this a few days before your party so the odor has a chance to dissipate, and make sure you don't blast any delicate blossoms.)
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10. Serve local, organic food. You'll avoid consuming some of the 300 different pesticides that may have touched nonorganic food while it was growing, plus grocery-store produce may travel an average of 1,500 miles before being sold, adding to the toxic emissions in the air.
11. Arrange different-colored laundry baskets near your eating area to encourage composting and recycling (use green for compostables and blue for recyclables). Hang a sign above the baskets to let your guests know what goes where.
12. Illuminate your patio with soy or beeswax candles or solar lights instead of conventional string lights, which ...
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First of all, newest Angel and Faith Issue:
HOLY SHIT at Whistler's backstory...Whistler is fucking strong. Maybe not Glory's level of strength, but strong enough to casually break Angel's arm, break tables in half and punch right through Angel. He also seems to have some sort of psychic powers, but overall he loves to play powerless person because its easier to manipulate others that way.
Whistler always knew about the whole Shanshu/Twilight thing and pretty much planned for Angel to do all of that ever since Angel got a soul. Needless to say he is not happy.
Whistler is a son of an unholy union between a pureblood demon and an incarnate of one of The Powers That Be. Both sides teamed up and his parents got killed for betraying both sides, but The Powers That Be decided to let their son live, hiding them from the Purebloods and wanting to shape Whistler into a weapon for themselves. Whistler's goal was balance between light and dark, so he was the cause of many good and bad events through the history - he made Arthur draw the sword out of the stone and then ensured his death and fall of Camelot.
WHISTLER IS FUCKING MERLIN OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND AND KING ARTHUR WAS A PROTOTYPE EXPERIMENT preparation for Angel Whistler is the most morally ambiguous character in the whole buffyverse, not bound by the meaning of good or right or morality and living by "ends justify the means" idea. After years of service as balancer between the Power That Be and purebloods like the First, Whistler eventually decided to play both sides and bring about the end of universe through Shanshu/Twilight. There's a nice callback to how destiny works in Buffyverse:
Buffy having litterally ended the World does not sit well with Whistler - he is all about balance and Buffy made sure there's no such thing. The last vision of future Whistler has seen came to him the moment Buffy destroyed the Seed - it was the vision of a dystopian far future. Whistlers has no way of knowing on if its the predetermined outcome, but he is hellbent on changing that outcome, no matter what he has to do.
His current plan is pretty much to forcibly turn entire humanity into magical being, hoping that it would be enough to avert the future he saw. He estimates that if his plan succeeds, at least two billion people will be dead. Angel, actually having learned his lesson not to fuck with grand shit like that is having none of that.Which ends just as expected
We also got the backstory for Pearl and NashThey are half-human half-demon hybrids, a merge between the human emotional way of existence and demon morality. Pearl and Nash actually worked for Angel on the whole Twilight thing. Their scene by their mother's deathbed was both touching and creepy. THey just like Whistler, blame Angel for everything that happened and their goal is apparantly revenge.
Then the first issue of Willow:
The idea of current state fo the world is unbearable to her, as someone who is so closely tied to everything supernatural. Willow, after her powertrip on Angel and Faith is traversing dimensions with Buffy's scythe, summoning demons and stuff, trying to find a way to "fix it all".
She seems to be more in control, capable of stopping herself from going fully evil and toying with the fine line in between.
She has teamed up with a shady horned demon mage, Marrak, who is also "from the same world as she" and is travelling dimensions. Needless to say things are not exactly looking...good:
Bassically Willow wants to become an embodiment and source of magic of entire universe. uh oh. It seems that through Marrak, Willow is slowly getting corrupted and shaped into the Willow we saw in the flashforward to the future. The very idea of "dark magic and light magic" is getting challenged for her in this current dimension, which is the dimension upon which Alice in Wonderland was based on. (I loved the pun at the catterpillar made at her asking her on if she thinks there's "dark science and light science" too) I can't wait to see where this is going.
Why does this have to be so fucking awesome. So far this all blows S8 out of the water.
I have always noticed, but i have never been able to put a finger on it, but it just hits me that Anya is actually the only titled character that has sexual "freedom". I read a academic analasys of her or BtVS the other day, and i was like "ahhh".
I have always had this "sex is wrong" wipe when watching BtVS but haven't been able to quite see why. I wish i had saved the link, it was quite interesting.
The whole "the show implies that sex is baaad" trope is misunderstanding,really. Yes A LOT of sexual relationships Buffy had turn out bad, but its more like a parallel to REALLY shitty teenager relationships one experiences in life than just "Sex is bad", emphasizing a lot of relatable ideas:With Angel, its a relatability of being rejected after your first time. With Parker its about realizing that someone used you and saw you as something less than a human. With Riley, its all about getting into relationship for all the wrong reasons and idealizing not the relationship but the idea of it. With Spike its all about all the abusive and dysfunctional possibilities both sides of pairing can cause.
Tara and willow, Oz and Willow, Kennedy and Willow, Anya and Xander, etc, continued to have relationships and sex without the world falling over. Hence why it nicely contrasts with Buffy and makes Buffy so relatable - everything that COULD go wrong in teenager's personal life, DID go wrong in her's, but with even more bizzare additions.
Buffy was not limited sexually. She did not just "stick" to "predefined" pairings and acted like a real teenager, actually flirting with others and engaging in conversation with those others.
Just because MOST of her sexual life had problems, it does not mean that show treated sex itself as bad - because, HEY, EVERYTHING in Buffy's life had some serious problems.
(and no the shitty cordelia plotline never happened, ever)
Well yea, but it's not only Buffy really. Willow also. When she kisses Kennedy(I can't remember if it's for the first time, but it's important, because something happend or was about about to happen) Willow gets "punished". The reason for said "punishment" can be argued, since it might not have been how Whedon intended it to come off, but that is how it comes off. It's feels sort of like if something written by someone who was religios to the extreme, but only being allowed to take 1 life partner or whatever one would call it. Ofcause this is this single act alone, since someone extremely religious wouldn't have introduced gay characters.
because, HEY, EVERYTHING in Buffy's life had some serious problems
Yes, i can agree with this, that Buffy's failed relationships and the consequences that having sex had caused her, is to some extent "everyday" in Buffy's life. Bad sides of life hit her in the crouch over and over..
I love how they have written Anya's character. In my opinion, she is one of the most humanised characters ever, she's so real and her ideals about love and life were also spot-on perfect. And even for a Spuffy fan like myself, I cry for Bangel moments when Christophe Beck's epic score of Close Your Eyes come in to play. I swear for something that's pure form of music, it has pure emotions that you can really empathise with.
And even for a Spuffy fan like myself, I cry for Bangel moments when Christophe Beck's epic score of Close Your Eyes come in to play. I swear for something that's pure form of music, it has pure emotions that you can really empathise with.
With this I agree.
I do not ship bangel, but I appreciate and LOVE the tragedies and emotions of that pairing.
Yeah, Whistler. We learned his entire backstory and he is VERY crazy right now. He has seen an EVEN CRAPPIER future than the one Buffy visited, so now its two possible futures, just the one with Evil Willow apparantly is the "good" ending, while the cyberpunk dollhouse-like dystopia one is the "bad ending".
Whistler is on a scavenger hunt for magical artifacts, creatures, etc, anything with magic and he plans to forcefully insert all the magic he would collect into humanity, killing most of it in the proccess, but most likely restoring magic to the remaining survivors that way.
So yeah, it seems that the only way to avoid majority of humanity dead ending as well as dystopia ending, is for Willow to actually turn evil and go down the path we saw in S8


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Lecture 18 - Transfer Functions
Lecture 18 builds on the discussion of Laplace Transforms to work with Transfer Functions. Transfer Functions are a compact form to display Input / Output relationships in an algebraic relationship in the s-domain. They can be combined in series or parallel and are convenient to use in block diagrams.
- Course reading for next class: 5.1-5.2 (PDC)
- Assignment due by the start of Lecture #19: 4.2, 4.10 from PDC
Don't forget to write the purpose at the beginning of each homework problem. This will help you think about each problem in the context of the overall course objectives.
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