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The first flower from Japan
Hi guys! well...this is my first Komoriya�s bulb with flowers. Autumn Pink Lady, 4 flowers for scape. Is pretty! :D...but, no roots, no leaves hahaha :(
This post was edited by GEORG-E-VERGREEN on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 12:11
Hi George, she's very cute but she looks an awful lot like Autumn ROSE Lady that we have posted pictures of on the "Pretty Flower" thread. Have you been reading that thread and what do you think about the pictures; do you think they look like yours?
Agapanthe and I think that ours don't really match the Komoriya's picture of Autumn Rose Lady...hmmm???
Is there any chance you could post a few more picture of your flower?? If we got Pink Lady instead of Rose Lady that's not the end of the world, but we paid $50 a piece for ours and Pink Lady is only selling for $20 a bulb!! I surely wouldn't like to think that I left $60 on the table for the wrong bulbs!!
Does anyone else out there have an Autumn Pink Lady that has bloomed?? (or a Rose Lady??)
This post was edited by dondeldux on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 13:03
Hi Donna, I think the difference is in the tone of pink. Autumn Pink Lady is a lighter shade. Autumn Rose Lady is a more saturated tone. Maybe here is saturated optical effects, but it is much clearer. i will look for other photos! Wait!i think that this is Pink Lady, Rose is more strong in color...and in price! LOL.
This post was edited by GEORG-E-VERGREEN on Thu, Feb 27, 14 at 14:12
I've seen the pictures you mention, I can tell you that my flower is much clearer in person, the pictures turned out very saturated as it is a problem of my camera. compared with those of Pretty Flowers, I venture to think that these are indeed Rose Lady
Hi George,
Thanks for posting more pictures of your flowers but it is still unclear to me if yours is a match to the others or not. The color of yours does seem a bit lighter but as you say it might just be your camera. Maybe you got the best deal yet, an Autumn Rose Lady for $20 when the last ones sold for $60!!??
Hello George,
Would you please let us know the colors of your Autumn Pink Lady's filaments, styles, and stigma? These subtleties are difficult to discern in photos. For example, I think that your flowerâÂÂs styles and stigma may have tiny pink dots. Do my eyes deceive me?
Many thanks and best regards,
Hola George,
ÿPodrÃÂas por favor avisarnos de los colores de los filamentos, estilos y del estigma de tu Dama Otoño Rosado? Estas sutilezas son difÃÂciles de discernir en las fotos. Por ejemplo, creo que los estilos y el estigma de tu flor pueden tener puntos diminutos de color rosa. ÿMis ojos me engañan?
MuchÃÂsimas gracias y saludos cordiales,
This post was edited by blancawing on Fri, Feb 28, 14 at 3:31
Hi Donna,
I have a scape coming on my Autumn Pink Lady. I will post when it gets a little further along. Also have an Evening Butterfly putting up a nice scape. Both have rooted so I guess I am lucky. I haven't had them very long either.
George, do you think your Autumn Pink Lady looks like the picture he had up? And,,,What is that other scape I see in the bottom right of your first picture? It looks just like my Evening Butterfly.
I can't wait to see what I have.
Hi Nancy,
That is great news that you have an Autumn Pink Lady about to bloom so hopefully you will be able to take some close-ups of your flowers and we might be able to determine what if any differences there are between George's and Beatrice's and my flowers!
I can't wait to see your Evening Butterfly also, I have one that is quite well rooted with just 2 leaves but no sign of any flowers yet.
Thanks for your help....Donna
@ Donna, the color is very light and thin. I should use the other camera as it saturates the color too, so at least imagine it with half tone you see here. It cost me 25 dlls, Autumn Rose was 60 dlls! .. I still think the photos you mention correspond to Autumn Rose.
@ Blanca, actually have a slight pink color from the middle! Many greetings to you, you are always so kind!
@ Nancy, the other floral stem corresponds to Trumpet Rouge ... just down one side of it is a Papilio bulb with 2 growing floral stem. To the left is one of 2 floral steam of Exotic Star.
I also have a Evening Butterfly with 2 floral stem but not in the photo, Little Child with 2, Exotica with 2, Yellow Gorgeous (almost die 2 bulbs) with 1, Bogota and Suamtra with 1 ... most Komoriyas.Most continue without root and flower sticks are slow to grow by not having nutrients and water in the absence of the root. I bought hormone gel, CLONEX ... I scraped some of the basal plate and place gel ... I hope that helps.
This post was edited by GEORG-E-VERGREEN on Fri, Feb 28, 14 at 11:29
George, If you say that your color is weak and light than we probably do have what we bought, Autumn Rose Lady. The color on mine is quite saturated so I guess I am satisfied that at least we didn't pay $50 for a $20 bulb! I guess this was much ado about nothing.
You have quite a line-up of beauties about to bloom and I can't wait to see your pictures, especially the Komoriya blooms! You must be doing something right!!
Maida I can't wait to see your Evening Butterfly as well as Georges and even thought you don't have any roots I'm sure the blooms will be fine and can't wait to see them! I had a Lemon Gold bloom for me many months ago with no roots and the flowers were just lovely!
Thanks to all of you who have helped and are still helping to ferret out this latest mystery of why our Autumn Rose Ladies don't match the picture on Komoriya's website!
Donna, I discovered something ... I think it's pretty obvious ... but they use very saturated photos so they look beautiful ... it comes to selling a product so you have to present it in the best way that's at the site of eBay page ... but I found them in Japan and there are more natural photo and you can see the original colors!
september rose lady
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It's getting close, finally. Autumn Pink Lady is beginning to open and I am so excited!
Also opening is Evening Butterfly.
I also have scapes on Shiroi Harukaze, Hatsukoi Mitai, 2 on Himegimi Mitai and even one on the Papilio that I ordered from him. I really love the Papilios and have a hard time passing any up from different places.
Lucky you Nancy!! Yours should be the best flower of Autumn Pink Lady yet as you have roots!! Your Evening Butterfly looks great too, you are obviously doing something right or you just lucked out and got good healthy bulbs! Either way I'm very happy for you!
Make sure you save your Lady's pollen for further use, papilio comes to mind.;-). I tried selfing 2 blossoms but they failed but I have seen another picture from someone else on this forum and their selfs look great so far so don't hesitate to try. Who knows on a rooted bulb you probably will have success, mine has no roots.
Keep us posted with pictures of these two bulbs as they get near to blooming as well as the others that will bloom for you soon!
The other day I did find a bud poking up on a rooted Miss Lemon!!
Thanks Donna! I can't wait to see your Miss Lemon! I love looking at everyone's pictures!
In the meantime, here is the next update:
Autumn Pink Lady
and the fully opened Evening Butterfly. I love it!
Other flower
What do you think about trying to cross with Giraffe? I have one blooming right now. Also Evergreen and Sweet Lillian blooming. I just missed Exotic Star and it's too soon for the Papilio . Any thoughts or even suggestions for others later?
Thanks all!
Bravo for your Evening Butterfly!! This is a lovely cybister isn't it? I've seen several pictures of people's blooms of this variety and they are always beautiful as is yours! Mine isn't going to bloom anytime soon but I do have some gifted pollen that I am waiting to use on Exotic Star which should be blooming in a few weeks. I also have some pollen from my Midnight Tag but so far nothing has taken using Midnight Tag.
I think all of your possible choices for partners might take and I see you haven't removed the pollen yet. If you do choose to pollinate on Evening Butterfly you can cover the stigma with a piece of cut straw while you remove the pollen.
What I also do when removing pollen sacs that have already opened from a flower that I wish to pollinate on is, after I remove the straw I stick the stigma (which is still in its hanging position) in some water to wash away any single grain of pollen that might have settled on the stigma. It dries very soon and I don't know if this helps but it's my own little method.
I can't wait to see your Autumn Pink Lady to see how it matches up the pictures that already been posted...Donna
Those are really nice pictures of your bipapilio agapanthe. Thank you for posting them. I have that one also and while it is growing very nicely, I don't think I am going to see any flower this year. I was surprised how large the bulb was that I received, especially after hearing others with their concern for the small bulbs. I really like the look of that flower and now I want mine to hurry up and bloom.
One of four flowers on Autumn Pink Lady is blooming now so here she is. I'm not so sure I am crazy about her though. She looks a little messy to me...like someone crumpled some of the petals before it opened. I noticed that on George's too though. I like frilled ones but this doesn't look frilly to me...just crumpled. There was no damage previously that I noticed. Maybe the next time will be better.
What do you think of this compared to Komoriya's picture?
Also, here is the current picture of Evening Butterfly. Donna, I removed & saved the pollen and hope to use it on the Papilio when it blooms. I like this one more than ever now even though there were only two flowers.
I hope everyone else posts pictures of their Komoriya flowers so we know what they really look like. Actually, I love seeing any and all pictures.
I guess it's safe to say that Evening Butterfly is a winner!!
As for Autumn Pink Lady, the jury is still out.
My first two flowers even though they did not match the photos for Autumn 'Rose' Lady were pretty with a nice shape and a pleasing color. The 3rd flower on this same bulb looks just like yours and Georges pictures of Autumn 'Pink' Lady and so I sent this picture to the folks at Komoriya and they wrote back agreeing that it was a mislabel and graciously refunded my money! Now obviously you got what you ordered. I am surprised that your bulb is so (as you say) messy as being well rooted with 4 flowers and not under any stress I would have thought your flowers would have been the best! Now maybe as time goes on they will change a bit (mine did) and become more pleasing to you.
Here is my bulb bought as Autumn Rose Lady that was really a Pink Lady.
This is the one I was pleased with:
and the one that looks just like Pink Lady that made me write to them thinking that it looked just like Pink Lady;
By now everyone is probably hopelessly confused! I do think your pictures and my picture of flower # 3 do match Komoriya's picture of Autumn Pink Lady.
So, we shall have to see what other mysteries and surprises await us concerning these bulbs!!
I have a bud poking out of Piyo Piyo!!
Oh Donna,
I am so happy that your 'Piyo-Piyo' is going to flower - Yippee!!!
To my eyes, the flowers produced by your 'Autumn ? Ladies' are more attractive and have better form than those produced by George's or Maida's bulbs. Hopefully, the quality of their blooms will improve when they bloom again.
Whatever the actual identity of the bulbs you received, they are quite lovely.
Hi All,
Just to set the record straight, my Autumn Rose Lady turned out to be an Autumn Pink Lady just like the rest of you correctly got when you ordered Pink Lady. I emailed the folks at Komoriya with the pictures and they agreed that I did get a mislabel and they apologized and did refund my money!! So we all ended up with Pink Lady regardless of what we ordered. Maybe another time...
Mine are rooting but still no leaves so I would be very interested to see some leaves from those of you who have leaves on your Pink Ladies...


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Southwest LRT
|Southwest LRT
|Light rail
|Metro Transit
|Planning (environmental impact statement phase)[1]
|Hennepin County, Minnesota
|Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
|18 planned
|Daily ridership
|28,100 est.
|2018 (projected)[2]
|Southwest Metro Transit
|Line length
|12 miles (19 km)
|Track gauge
|4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
|Overhead lines
The Southwest LRT (Metro Green Line Extension) is scheduled to become the third light rail transit corridor in the Minneapolis – St. Paul region, with service between Minneapolis and Eden Prairie, going through St. Louis Park, Hopkins, and Minnetonka along the way. Since receiving approval from the Metropolitan Council on May 26, 2010, the Southwest LRT joins the Bottineau LRT as an official part of the Metro Council's project list.
|This section requires expansion. (June 2008)
In 1988, the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority (HCRRA) identified the Southwest transitway from Hopkins to downtown Minneapolis as a future LRT corridor.[3]
In 2002 and 2003, the HCRRA conducted the Southwest Rail Transit Study to evaluate twelve possible light rail routes in the southwest transitway. Of the twelve routes, eight were eliminated and four were selected for further analysis: routes 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A.[3]
On March 4, 2009, the FTA approved a $2 million study of the project, with an anticipated opening date in 2015.[4] On May 26, 2010, the Metropolitan Council voted to approve the locally-preferred alternative advanced by Hennepin County. The project will now transition to Metropolitan Council control, and is currently anticipated to begin service in 2018.[2]
Route debate[edit]
On May 26, 2010, the Metropolitan Council approved route 3A as the locally-preferred alternative for the line. There was a protracted debate over the route choice in the years leading up to this decision, with many parties strongly opposed to the final route choice. The final choice in favor of 3A was made for several reasons, including its favorable Cost Effectiveness Index (CEI) score and its relatively lower environmental impacts.[5]
Several possible routing variations were evaluated to determine the final routing of the line. There was local debate about the route the line would take between the Chain of Lakes and downtown Minneapolis. Routes 1A and 3A (chosen route) use the Kenilworth Corridor, a dedicated stretch of right-of-way owned by the HCRRA to be used for future rail transit. Route 3C would have the tracks run much further east through the trench used by the Midtown Greenway before turning north at Nicollet Avenue, where it would run in a tunnel for part of the way downtown.
Kenilworth alignment (routes 1A, 3A-chosen route)[edit]
The Kenilworth Corridor was acquired by the HCRRA to preserve it for future rail transit. The Kenilworth routing will provide shorter ride times for the majority of the line's users compared to the 3C routing. It is also less expensive to build and operate. Click to view the Hennepin County Recommended Alignment.
Supporters of a network alignment propose that a streetcar or trolley line be installed alongside the Midtown Greenway to connect the Southwest LRT line to the existing Blue Line, however this will not occur. Rather LRT will be used for the full stretch of the line. The Midtown Greenway Coalition has long supported and promoted the network alignment. The group successfully prevented the trench from being used for a busway and instead pitched the idea of the trail with a trolley or streetcar.
Some residents living adjacent to the Kenilworth Corridor favored the 3C route because they were concerned about the noise and disturbance of the trains passing through the corridor near their homes. The Kenilworth Corridor presently contains an active freight rail line, and the light rail will be in addition to this existing track.
Greenway/Nicollet alignment (route 3C)[edit]
Advocates of the 3C route wanted the line to directly serve Uptown and Eat Street, and feel that routing the line through the Kenilworth Corridor would be a missed opportunity for increased ridership and better transit in this area of Minneapolis.
Some Eat Street business owners were concerned that the access and traffic problems resulting from the construction period on Nicollet Avenue would severely affect their business. Engineers indicated Nicollet Avenue may have been tunneled instead of at-grade.
In early 2008, Hennepin County Medical Center acquired a city block parcel at 28th Street and Nicollet where the 3C Route would turn from the Midtown Greenway trench onto or under Nicollet Avenue.[6] HCMC is building a clinic on the site that does not incorporate a light rail station or easement into the building. That would have prevented the 3C route from turning at this location since there is not enough space for tracks to make the minimum required turning radius.
Neighborhood positions[edit]
During public input phases in 2007-2008 the final three proposed routes faced opposition by some members of two Minneapolis neighborhoods, Kenwood and Whittier. Kenwood's neighborhood organization released an official neighborhood stance against the line with Whittier's organization debating to release a stance. In Kenwood, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods, their criticism involves disruption to natural parkland and noise though the Kenilworth Corridor (which routes '1A' and '3A' would run on). The corridor is home to the Kenilworth Trail, a scenic bike and pedestrian trail that runs adjacent to a rarely used freight rail line.[7] In Whittier, disruption to Nicollet Avenue by the '3C' route had brought concern to business owners regarding Eat Street as a business, restaurant and retail corridor of the Whittier neighborhood.[8]
The Bryn Mawr neighborhood has favored the routes moving through the Kenilworth Corridor as it supports their redevelopment plans. Also, suburban cities have received the proposals favorably with concern over routing within their cities than opposition of the line itself. The 3A route through job centers in Eden Prairie garnered approval from its City Council. Hopkins also proposed routing the line through their downtown Main Street but will instead be routed nearby.[9]
- ^ "Current Project Phase: Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)". Southwest Transitway. Hennepin County. 2010. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ^ a b "Southwest LRT Timeline". Southwest Transitway. Metropolitan Council. 2012. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ^ a b Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authority. "Southwest Transitway Alternatives Analysis Final Report (Chapter 1 - Intro)". Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ Blake, Laurie (March 5, 2009). "Transit Agency to Study Rail Plan". StarTribune. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- ^ "Council Approves Light Rail Along the Southwest Corridor". Metropolitan Council. May 26, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
- ^ Dylan Thomas (May 5, 2008). "HCMC Clinic on the move". Southwest Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
- ^ Kenwood Isles Area Association (March 2007). "Kenwood Newsletter".
- ^ Eric James (2007–2008). "Whittier Alliance, Community Meeting Minutes". Whittier Alliance.
- ^ Jenna Ross (January 17, 2008). "Dreams sprout along southwest rail route". Star Tribune.
External links[edit]
- Southwest LRT Community Works
- Southwest light rail map
- Metropolitan Council project website
- Locally Preferred Alternative

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Quiz: Remember the definition of mal de mer?
in Judaism, the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana (on Tishri 1 and 2) and Yom Kippur (on Tishri 10), in September or October. Though the Bible does not link these two major festivals, the Talmud does. Consequently, yamim nora'im is sometimes used to designate the first 10 days of the religious year: the three High Holy Days, properly so-called, and also the days between. The entire 10-day period is more accurately called Aseret Yeme Teshuva ("Ten Days of Penitence").


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How to turn your mobile display orange for better sleep
I've been using f.lux on my computers for years. Now I've come up with a way to make my iPhone and Kindle have orange displays, too.
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I've been using f.lux on my computers for years. Now I've come up with a way to make my iPhone and Kindle have orange displays, too.
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I already can (and do) nap anywhere, but the Nap Anywhere looks like it would make it more comfortable to do so. Here's a video demo. (Thanks, Tanya Schevitz!)
Do you have experience with sleep paralysis? Many scientists believe that sleep paralysis is the biological answer to such mysteries as spirit visitations, alien abductions, incubi/succubi, and out-of-body experiences. My old friend Rodney Ascher, director of the excellent film Room 237 and other movies, is making a documentary about the phenomenon and would love to hear from you. Rodney writes:
I'm working on on a new film - it's about Sleep Paralysis, a surprisingly common phenomenon where people wake-up totally frozen from the eyeballs down, unable even to make a noise, and they frequently see sinister intruders and other disturbing visions. I've been obsessed with it ever since it used to happen with me (in my case, I saw sort of a living, 3D shadow looming over in me in judgement).
The film is going to be largely built on interviews with people who've had vivid, first-person experiences with it (and have given some serious thought to what's really happening to them) - if anyone wants to share their stories, the easiest way is to contact us via the film's Facebook page.
After eight years of development and a successful Kickstarter, BB pal Mitch Altman's Neurodreamer sleep mask is ready for shipping! You might recall that Mitch is the inspiring maker behind the TV-B-Gone, Trip Glasses, and a bunch of other delightful gadgets. The Neurodreamer is an open source light/sound machine integrated into a memory foam mask. Mitch says:
The NeuroDreamer sleep mask is an advancement over prior entrainment* devices which attempt to entrain the brain with only a single brainwave frequency at a time. The NeuroDreamer sleep mask uses up to four brainwave frequencies simultaneously (mixed at different amplitudes), to more closely replicate the full spectrum of frequencies present in a person who is falling asleep.
* "Entrainment" is the the process of externally presenting brainwave frequencies to the brain, allowing it to synchronize to those frequencies.
It's available for $69.95 in three different versions designed for Sleep, Lucid Dreaming, or Meditation. Mitch is having a sale right now: Entering the coupon code THANKS gets you 10% off everything in Mitch's Cornfield Electronics shop, including the Neurodreamer. I want one!
Max Hawkins's "Call in the Night" is an "experimental radio show" presenting recordings of people who volunteered to be woken up by a phone call to discuss their dreams, worries, emotions, and experiences. It's rather compelling and beautiful. You can sign up to be called at CallInTheNight.com.
Miles O'Brien has a wonderful piece on NewsHour about the neuroscience of sleep and other forms of brain-rest, including meditation. I was present for some of the taping and research, and I love how the story turned out.
Sleep deprivation can cause serious health and cognitive problems in humans. In short, it can make us fat, sick and stupid. But why do humans need so much sleep? Science correspondent Miles O'Brien talks to scientists on the cutting edge of sleep research and asks if there's any way humans might evolve into getting by with less.
And below, some out-takes from Miles' time swimming with dolphins at SeaWorld. Dolphins sleep in a very interesting way, and you'll want to watch the piece to learn more. PBS Link, and YouTube Link.
This hummingbird is sleeping in a specialized research container connected to a machine that measures how much oxygen it is breathing. According to forrestertr7, who posted the video to YouTube, this experiment was part of research aimed at understanding the differences between the metabolism of hummingbirds and that of larger species. After its nap, the hummingbird was released back into the wild.
But what about the snoring? Does the hummingbird really need a tiny, little beak strip, or what? I asked science blogger Joe Hanson, who posted this video to Twitter earlier today, and he did some research. Turns out, it's not totally unreasonable to call that adorable little wheeze a "snore". But, at the same time, hummingbirds have very different biology than we do. A snore for them isn't the same as a snore for us.
Hummingbirds have incredibly high metabolic needs. To do all that buzzing around and to keep their tiny bodies warm, they eat the human equivalent of a refrigerator full of food every day, mostly in the form of high-energy nectar and fatty bugs. Because of their small size, they also lose a lot of body heat to the air. In order to preserve energy on cool nights, they have the ability to enter a daily, miniature hibernation called torpor.
...Just before morning, their natural circadian rhythms kick in and they start to thaw out, like heating a car engine on a cold day. What we see in the video is probably a bird coming out of torpor (which is what the scientists in the video were studying), starting to breathe in more oxygen to raise its body temperature, and making that adorable snoring noise.
Read the full story at Joe Hanson's blog, It's Okay To Be Smart
See also: The myth of the 8-hour sleep
Coinciding with the beginning of the US school year, researchers at UCLA published a study last week showing a correlation between lack of sleep and poor academic performance. Some 500 high schoolers kept two-week diaries of their sleep habits, how well they understood and participated in classroom work, and their scores on assignments and tests. The ones who slept less did less well in school.
The headlines on this study—like the one at Smithsonian.com, where I first saw it—tout the results as evidence that you shouldn't stay up late cramming. But cramming usually is a special-occasion thing—something you do the night before a test—not a daily occurrence. This study is really about chronic sleep deprivation, habits and behaviors that happen over weeks and months. Along with several other studies that have come out in recent years, it helps build a persuasive case not against occasional cram sessions, but against academic routines that all-but require students to operate constantly on an abnormal sleep cycle.
Placebos have no repeatable physical effect that can be broadly demonstrated to exist. But, if people believe the placebo can help them, it often does—especially for inherently subjective issues like pain relief.
Nocebos are what happens when a placebo (again, something that technically has no physical effect on the body) causes a negative side-effect, simply because the person believes that such side-effects are likely to happen to them.
There is a lot we don't understand about both of these effects. After all, running really detailed tests would inherently involve unethical behavior—intentionally not treating patients or intentionally trying to induce a negative reaction in them. But that doesn't mean you can ignore these phenomena.
A great example comes in a recent column by Alexis Madrigal on The Atlantic. You're probably familiar with the idea of sleep paralysis—the experience of waking up, being mentally awake, but still physically paralyzed. This happens to people all over the world. And, all over the world, it's long been explained in folklore as the work of demons and evil spirits. (The fact that sleep paralysis is often accompanied by feelings of terror, and the sensation of something sitting on your chest doesn't hurt in that regard.) Normally, sleep paralysis brings a few minutes of terror, but no lasting harm. In the mid-1980s, however, it suddenly became capable of killing. The catch, the men it killed were all recent Hmong immigrants, living in the United States. Researcher Shelley Adler thinks it was actually a nocebo effect that killed these men—they believed themselves into an early grave.
[In America] some Hmong felt that they had not properly honored the memories of their ancestors, which was a known risk factor among the Hmong for being visited by the tsog tsuam. Once the night-mare visitations began, a shaman was often needed to set things right. And in the scattered communities of Hmong across the country, they might not have access to the right person. Without access to traditional rituals, shamans, and geographies, the Hmong were unable to provide themselves psychic protection from the spirits of their sleep.
Drawing on all this evidence, Adler makes the provocative claim that the Laotian immigrants of the 1980s were in some sense killed by their powerful cultural belief in night spirits. It was not a simple process.
"It is my contention that in the context of severe and ongoing stress related to cultural disruption and national resettlement (exacerbated by intense feelings of powerlessness about existence in the United States), and from the perspective of a belief system in which evil spirits have the power to kill men who do not fulfill their religious obligations," Adler writes, "the solitary Hmong man confronted by the numinous terror of the night-mare (and aware of its murderous intent) can die of SUNDS."
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Image: "Flaming June" by Lord Frederic Leighton (1895). via Wikimedia Commons
Since everyone is reporting on their long-term self-experimentation this week*, I thought I'd share my own major breakthrough. I strongly believe that waking yourself up with alarms is extremely bad for your health, creativity and productiveness.
I'm coming up on the 8th anniversary of my decision to eschew alarm clocks. It started when I noticed that I often awoke before my alarm went off anyway. After reading an article about ten years ago in Nature on timing the end of nocturnal sleep (PMID: 9892349), I gave alarms up in 2003 and have not looked back. I decided to try working without a net, and after some trial and error, I found what works for me. I have never overslept (a problematic word, IMHO) or missed anything important. Details after the break. Read the rest
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently conducted a field study to learn the effects of morning light on teenagers' sleep cycles. They concluded that a lack of exposure to early morning light can result in a 30-minute delay in the onset of sleep.
"If you remove blue light in the morning, it delays the onset of melatonin, the hormone that indicates to the body when it's nighttime," explains Dr. Figueiro. "Our study shows melatonin onset was delayed by about 6 minutes each day the teens were restricted from blue light. Sleep onset typically occurs about 2 hours after melatonin onset."Lack of morning light keeping teenagers up at night
The study findings should have significant implications for school design. "Delivering daylight in schools may be a simple, non-pharmacological treatment for students to help them increase sleep duration," concludes Dr. Figueiro.
The new research has applications for more than 3 million shift workers and Alzheimer's patients who suffer from lack of a regular sleep pattern.
Studies have shown that this lack of synchronization between a shift worker's rest and activity and light/dark patterns leads to a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, seasonal depression and cancer over decades.


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Has anyone used Outback by Behr?
kristinl16February 26, 2009
We are buying our first home and are painting everything. I am thinking about painting the kitchen Outback by Behr, but want to see it first. The color on the color simulator looks MUCH greener than the swatch. Has anyone painted a room this color? Thanks!


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Tulips raised in glass container
Received a large container of tulip bulbs with roots touching a few inches of water. They had a beautiful yellow and orange flower and now I have over a dozen bulbs with lots of roots and green folage. Can I save these bulbs for later planting or are they done since being in water so long?
You could plant them individually in soil and grow them on till the foliage dies back. For a tulip to bloom the bulb needs to be about four and a half inches in circumference. It take more than one growing season usually to attain that size, and most gardeners in warm climates like ours will just buy new bulbs. Al
Usually, tulips that have been forced, especially when forced on water, are discarded. The process takes a lot out of the bulb and it may take a long time to recover. Also, tulips do not bloom well (if at all) without a cold period, so in a warmer climate, it makes better sense to buy new bulbs each year.
The bulbs are suspended just above the water - if the bulbs sit in water for extended periods, they will rot. After the cold period, the pots are brought into light and warmer temperatures. Once they bloom, I extend the bloom period by placing the vases in a frost-free spot outdoor.
I have used the process for all sorts of bulbs, including hyacinths, crocus, and amaryllis (below is a photo of one of this year's), and I have found tulips to be the most fickle. If you want to force tulips, your best bet is one of the more foolproof varieties.
And yes, that is one of those Costco tulip vases next to the amaryllis.
very pretty..I HAVE to try that!!
So here's a question for ya..
After my tulips (the ones which are in pots) are done blooming outside, can I chill them in the fridge for a few months..how many? Can I try to get them to re-bloom this way so I can have them bloom inside over the summer? Or do they need a year's rest like they would in the ground?
I have never tried anything like that, but really, what would be the harm in trying? I assume tulips need a rest and your plan would not work, but loads of assumptions are proven wrong on a regular basis. If you do try it, I would go with a plain, consistent bloomer.
In order to rebloom the tulips, you first need to make sure they get as much growing time out of the existing foliage as they can get. That means giving them light and fertilizer until the leaves die back. Then, you need to store the bulbs at room temperatures for at least 2-3 months before chilling them. Tulip bulbs are never truly dormant. There are changes going on inside the bulb even when they seem to be dry and sitting on the shelf in the stores in the fall.
A tulip bulb will not rebloom until it has matured to the "G" stage (there are a bunch of growth stages the bulb goes through after the foliage dies back). This is the stage where the embryonic bud has completely formed within the bulb (if you cut open a bulb in the fall, you'll see a small, 2mm high bud with all the parts of a full flower -- petals, stamen, pistil, etc.).
Every year, I force a number of bulbs and bulb-like plants - lilies-of-the-valley, irises (bulbs and rhizomes), hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, Pleiones, Crocus, etc. I would think most are suitable for trying on water as long as the bulb/rhizome does not sit in the water. I have never tried forcing Cannas or lilies in any way.
Pat makes a good point: after bloom, the bulbs need to regenerate for the next cycle. For that reason, I think I would try new bulbs for out-of-season forcing. You should be able to hold back growth for some time in cold after you purchase bulbs in autumn.
I just discard the tulips (both water forced and soil in pots forced) since it is not worth it to me to try to save them outside or plant again. Seems like they are cheap enough to just discard and start over with fresh bulbs. The way I look at it gardening should be fun and not all tedious work. Plus consider the cost of a cut flower arrangement from a florist and we don't try to preserve the flowers or dry them after receiving such an arrangement, would we? We just accept that we enjoy the flowers and then discard them when they brown up. So this is the way I think of it. I've even done this with rare tulips from Old House Gardens.


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Over the past decade, Army and Marine Corps forces have deployed repeatedly with limited time between deployments. At their home stations, combat training centers, and other locations, units have focused their limited training time on training for counterinsurgency operations. Prior to deploying, units also conduct a large-scale exercise referred to as a culminating training event. With the drawdown of forces in Iraq, the services have begun to resume training for a fuller range of offensive, defensive, and stability missions. The House report to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 directed GAO to report on the Army's and Marine Corps' abilities to complete training requirements. GAO assessed the extent to which the services' (1) active component forces are completing training prior to the culminating training event and (2) leaders are positioned to plan and manage training as forces resume training for a fuller range of missions. GAO analyzed training requirements and unit training documentation, and interviewed headquarters and unit personnel during site visits between July 2010 and July 2011.
Deploying Army and Marine Corps units conduct extensive predeployment training--both individual and collective, to include a large-scale culminating training event--at their home stations, combat training centers, and other locations. However, several factors, such as limited training time between deployments, the large number of training requirements, and the current focus on counterinsurgency operation training have been preventing units from completing all desired training prior to the culminating training event. For example, based on GAO's site visits, 7 of 13 units were not able to complete all of the desired individual and collective training (e.g., company-level live fire training) prior to arriving at the combat training centers. Further, officials from all of the units GAO spoke with stated that they planned to delay certain training until they were at the combat training centers since resources--such as theater-specific equipment like mine resistant ambush protected vehicles--were more readily available there. GAO found that some units had to train to improve proficiency levels at the combat training centers prior to beginning the culminating training events, and therefore were not always able to take full advantage of the training opportunities available to them at the combat training centers to conduct complex, higher-level training. Still, according to trainers at the combat training centers, while units arrive with varying levels of proficiency, all forces leave with at least the platoon level proficiency required to execute the counterinsurgency missions required for ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the past decade, continuous overseas deployments have reduced training timeframes and resulted in senior leaders assuming training management responsibilities from junior leaders. Specifically, leaders at higher headquarters have taken responsibility for much of the training management function--planning, preparing, and assessing training--while junior leaders have focused primarily on training execution. However, changing conditions, such as increased competition for resources in a constrained fiscal environment, increased time at home station, and a return to training for a fuller range of missions, make it imperative that all leaders possess a strong foundation in training management. The services are developing various initiatives to restore and develop training management skills in their leaders, but neither service has developed results-oriented performance metrics to gauge the effectiveness of their efforts to restore these skills. As GAO has previously reported, establishing metrics can help federal agencies target training investments and assess the contributions that training programs make to improving results. Without a means of measuring the effectiveness of their efforts, the Army and Marine Corps will not have the information they need to assess the extent to which their leaders have the training management skills needed to plan, prepare, and assess required training. GAO recommends that the services develop results-oriented performance metrics that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of their training management initiatives and support any adjustments that the services may need to make to these initiatives. DOD concurred with this recommendation.
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Status: Open
Comments: Both the Army and the Marine Corps agreed with the GAO recommendation to develop results-oriented performance metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of training management initiatives and have taken action to address them, however no documentation has been provided to GAO. According to the Army, it has developed tools to support unit level training management such as the Digital Training Management System (DTMS) and the Army Training Network (ATN), however no documenation has been provided to GAO. According to the Army, metrics were collected in 2011 to measure the performance and functionality of DTMS through a survey of more than 60 locations. The Army also stated that ATN, which is a website that allows trainers to access the latest training publications, products, and techniques, further addresses GAO's recommendation. According to the Marine Corps, unit training management is now included in its formal professional military education and several of its officer training programs, but this information has not been provided to GAO. The ability to qualify and quantify the success of these programs through performance metrics is included through a feedback process. As of 2012, an information management system is being developed to assist commanders to better plan, conduct, and track training. Marine Corps officials noted that it continues to instruct the Unit Training Management system through a train-the-trainer process at Camp Johnson, NC.
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A former NDP cabinet minister in charge of Manitoba Hydro has called on the Crown utility and his NDP colleagues to put the brakes on the $6.2-billion Keeyask generating station.
Former energy minister Tim Sale said the province should focus more on expanding its wind-power generation and encourage more rural Manitobans to switch from electric heat to geothermal to save electricity.
"What has to happen is we need to take a deep breath and look out to the horizon and get beyond looking at the next big dam," said Sale, an NDP MLA from 1995 to 2007.
"The horizon to me is incredibly uncertain. Why would we want to bet the farm?"
Sale said new extraction methods for shale gas and shale oil will provide a ready supply of fuel to fire thermal power production plants in the United States for the foreseeable future.
That, coupled with the spectre of rising interest rates, makes building Keeyask a risk, he said.
The Selinger government could offset that by erecting more windmills, not only producing enough reliable power to meet the province's growing needs, but even selling it at night when we don't need it.
"It doesn't take much in the way of an interest rate increase to dramatically change the dynamics of a big capital project," Sale said.
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"We have the ability to move quickly on this or move in a very deliberate, staged way," he said, adding the end of a federal tax credit in the U.S. for wind-generation projects -- which expires at the end of this year unless Congress extends it -- will make acquiring wind equipment that much more affordable.
"It will be much better than saying, 'We're going to build Keeyask and it's going to take us seven years and we hope that everything will go well.' "
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"It's not the same product," he said of wind when compared to a hydroelectric power. "It has a lot less value than a hydro resource, which is what we call 'dispatchable,' which you can count on to a large extent all the time. If you don't know when the wind's blowing, you can't in advance arrange to sell it or integrate into your network in such a way that you're maximizing the value of it."
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But it used an aircraft borrowed from Conservation, which has since been returned, grounding the transfer program.
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Cat-Choo & Dog Bless! Living With Allergies â?¨Has Just Become Easier
This is the season of spring allergies and according to the Humane Society, 15% of us are allergic to cats or dogs. And regardless, one-third of Americans who are allergic to cats live with at least one in their household. In 1997, Canadian psychologist, Dr Stanley Coren, investigated 341 allergy sufferers who were advised to give up their pets by their physicians in order to stop allergy symptoms. Only one out of every five followed the doctor's orders! Clearly, the study has spokenthe benefits of owning a pet far outweigh the disadvantages of pet allergies for many owners. However, living comfortably with a pet when you have allergies takes much discipline and compliance to some key rules, as well as a keen understanding of the allergic condition.
The source of these irritating and sometimes life-threatening symptoms begins at your animal's skin. Glands in your pet's hide emit miniscule allergy-triggering proteins, called allergens. These allergens float through the air and settle on furniture, rugs, clothing, etc and linger on your animal's fur.
As long as you or your family member's allergies are merely miserable, but not so severe to be considered life threatening, consider some of these simple remedies to help reduce the amount of allergens in your home:
There is no such thing as a non-allergenic dog or cat. There are, however, hypoallergenic pets, such as the Poodle, Bichon Frise, and Schnauzer – hypo meaning a decreased tendency to cause allergies. (See below for the entire list) "There has been a lot of interest in selective breeding or doing genetic engineering to produce cats and dogs that are hypo-allergenic," says Dr. Horne, "For an individual allergy sufferer, the most practical approach to determine one's level of sensitivity is to spend time with the breed that they are considering taking on as a pet."
It may seem like a lot of work – cleaning, shots, pills, nasal sprays, eye drops, etc, but nobody can deny the outcome a loving pet has on its owners overall health and well-being. And the rewards of having a loving pet certainly prevail over the hassle of a daily cleaning regime!
Hypoallergenic Breeds: (Please note that everyone's allergies are different. A breed that may work for one person, may cause symptoms in another!)
* American Hairless Terrier
* Airedale Terrier
* Basenji
* Bedlington Terrier
* Bergamasco
* Bichon Frisé
* Bichon/Yorkie
* Bolognese
* Border Terrier
* Cairn Terrier
* Cavachon
* Chacy Ranior
* Chinese Crested (hairless)
* Chinese Crested (powder puff)
* Cockapoo
* Coton De Tulear
* Doodleman Pinscher
* Giant Schnauzer
* Hairless Khala
* Havanese
* Irish Water Spaniel
* Kerry Blue Terrier
* Labradoodle
* Lagotto Romagnolo
* Lowchen
* Maltese
* Malti-Poo
* Miniature Schnauzer
* Native American Indian Dog
* Peruvian Inca Orchid
* Poodle
* Poos
* Portuguese Water Dog
* Puli
* Schnoodle
* Shepadoodle
* Shichon
* Shih-Tzu
* Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
* Spanish Water Dog
* Standard Poodle
* Standard Schnauzer
* Tibetan Terrier
* Toy Poodle
* West Highland White Terrier
* Wirehaired Fox Terrier
* Xoloitzcuintle
* Yorkshire Terrier
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From the Publisher"Meyer-Lee's account of the generations of writers from Chaucer to Wyatt deserves to be placed alongside the very best and most influential recent histories of this same span.... Well written and consistently argued, it is literary history of the first order."
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"Great Never-Stopping Adventure"
This was a great adventure of a book! As soon as one problem or crisis was solved another was right around the corner!
However, don't read this if you are looking for a simple romance novel. Not too far into the story Claire has already met and wed her Jamie and most of the novel is her traveling with him to various places (or running, depending on your point of view). The author is great with the way she depicts the more "private" scenes, leaving much to your imagination instead of ramming it down your throat like a lot of novels do. However, there are ten times more "private" scenes than in most novels!
Also, a warning to some listeners who might be uncomfortable, I know I was: there is a semi-graphic description of a homosexual rape scene. It was broken into threeish parts as the victim gained the courage to speak of it. Listening to it I think was worse than if I just had to read it on a page.
In any case, the woman who read the story was awesome! she put life into the character, and it was nice to have someone who pronounced all those foreign names perfectly! I give this 5 stars :)
"Great book"
This was a great book. Such a Unique time travel book. Loved the characters and the history.
laugh and cry
I highly recommend this book. Loved Claire and how her character evolved and how much she loved Jamie.
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"One of the best I have ever read"
I read the print version of Outlander first. I fell in love with the stories, and tried the other abridged version (ugh). This one, with Davina Porter, made me fall in love with Jamie and Claire all over again. I do some major commuting for work, and the story and narration made the time fly. The narrator does a great job with the accents and pacing.
It is hard to pin down the genre of this story - is it history? romance? science fiction (time travel)? mystery? There are too many components to isolate. I have run into people on business trips whose faces light up when they see me read it. It is a painless way to educate yourself of how women think, how natural science works, and scottish history. In the later books, American history becomes a focus.
Jamie. Odd I know, for me to prefer the female narrator's version of the "male lead", but her tone and inflection added the right touches of sincerity, wryness, humor.
a pivotal point when Claire has to decide whether to go back to her own time.
The books only get better after this. I have read and listened to all of them, and then read this first one again and again.
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The story line is fascinating and absorbing. Though the book is extremely long by the average Audibles standards it is fully worth it. I laughed, I cried and I fell in love with this book. I hated the fact it was over.
The narrator is perfection. I can't imagine anyone else reading this story. Sometimes I have critiques of what the narrator could have done better or wish there was a different narrator altogether. Every nuance, every voice inflection, each character voice was perfection.
The main characters Jamie and Claire are beautifully written and fully flushed out. I wish that I could find a love like that. Listening to the story makes you wish everything was possible and if it was that it might happen to you :-) Don't let the size of the book scare you away, just let the narrators voice wash over you and let your imagination fly and before long you will be immersed in your journey. It is one of the rare books that make you sad to leave the story.
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Being a part of the entire lifetime of Jamie and Claire was incredible. You never have to wonder about any of the characters; they become a part of your own life. I love the audio version and looked forward everyday to hearing for hours the details of these characters while I was at work. It took me about 2 years to get through the series and very much worth the listening. I love the way they were written and am thinking of getting involved in another series. Just loved the stories.
Listen to all kinds, but mostly enjoy witty light-hearted entertaining reads. Stay away from romance novels & books with heavy violence.
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Great read. I have recommended the Outlander to numerous people and everyone has thoroughly enjoyed it plus continued on with the series. Be patient with the first few chapters because it does start out slow, but this is all information that is important to the overall story. Enjoy!
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The audio version is very rich. I got so much more detail and depth to the story and characters. It was so good I will be getting more of them. I have to see what happens next.
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I liked Claire.She was a very strong and independent woman. It is difficult for her to give up her independence to the men around her. Davina did a great job bringing her to life.
I had a wide range of reactions while listening to the book. Laughing one minute crying the next.
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I really enjoyed this at the beginning and I actually bought the book because it was in the sci fi section. I even enjoyed the romance at the beginning. But over the course of the book that just got a bit boring. The story was pretty good, but it got a bit predictable really. I probably won't bother with the next in the series
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Story is too long, and a bit too explicit. Don't think I will read the others.
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"1st book i ever listened to. LOVE her."
The story sucks you in and never lets go. I was hooked after the first few pages.
When Claire is brushing her hair in the window.
The adventure of a lifetime begins when.....
If you don't listen to any other Author, listen to Diana Gabaldon's books. One of the best writers I have ever read/heard, hands down.


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Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the family Canidae. Both are well known for having established the modern framework for the evolutionary relationship of canids. Combining their research with Mauricio Antón's impeccable reconstructions of both extinct and extant species, Wang and Tedford present a remarkably detailed and nuanced portrait of the origin and evolution of canids over the past 40 million years.
The authors cull their history from the most recent scientific research conducted on the vast collections of the American Museum of Natural History and other leading institutions. The fossil record of the Canidae, particularly those from their birth place in North America, are the strongest of their kind among known groups of carnivorans. Such a wonderfully detailed evolutionary history provides access to a natural history that is not possible with many other groups of carnivorans.
With their rich fossil record, diverse adaptations to various environments, and different predatory specializations, canids are an ideal model organism for the mapping of predator behavior and morphological specializations. They also offer an excellent contrast to felids, which remain entrenched in extreme predatory specializations. The innovative illustrated approach in this book is the perfect accompaniment to an extremely important branch of animal and fossil study. It transforms the science of paleontology into a thrilling visual experience and provides an unprecedented reference for anyone fascinated by dogs.
An easy-to-read text, accompanied by Anton's marvelous illustrations... Recommended.
A definitive, readable treatment of the evolution of the canine clan.
Sets a new standard.... With Anton's imagery, Wang and Tedford's Dogs is nothing short of wonderful.
A must-read for dog junkies.
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Nothing short of wonderful.
Richard A. Kissel
1. Dogs: Methods of Study and the Place of Dogs in Nature
2. The Origin of Canids and Other Doglike Carnivorous Mammals
3. Diversity: Who Is Who in the Dog Family
4. Anatomy and Function: How the Parts Work
5. Hunting and Social Activity
6. Changing Environments and Canid Evolution
7. Going Places: Braving New Worlds
8. Domestic Dogs
Appendix: Canid Species and Classification
Further Reading
Read chapter 4, >Anatomy and Function: How the Parts Work.
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I'm always sensitive to any claims of "mutation X gave humans power Y" because mutations are so rarely beneficial, the majority of evolution comes from sexual inheritance and selection pressure.
So how do they know it was a mutation? Its not like suddenly humans got a hunkering for plants one day. It had to happen gradually, so this gene must have been kicking around for ages, and must have appeared in multiple tribes; one mutated birth isn't going to suddenly diffuse across an entire species.
Basically, I don't understand this article.
Any experts out there want to demystify this for me a little more? How one random gene in one birth suddenly afflicts an entire population?
Vegetarians. You keep using that word, but I don't think it means what you think it means.
... being able to eat vegetables is not unusual for ANY monkey or ape. What is more if not most interesting is a genetic mutation which allows us to eat grains. Chimpanzees, for example, simply cannot process grains and as far as I have heard humans are the only primates which can.
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